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Incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven.
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defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
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too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"
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Incapable of being expressed; indescribable or unutterable. Not to be uttered; taboo: the ineffable name of God.
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Too awesome or sacred to be spoken, inexpressible, or too overwhelming to be described in words -- said of God's name, "I AM" (YHWH, the Tetragrammaton), as expressed to Moses in Exodus 3:14.
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