inscrutableness
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The illumination that had brought it out was now faded, and all was a blur, an inscrutableness, a scrawl of unintelligible characters alike.
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This conception of the merry Sphinx may seem strange to the dyspeptic philosopher pondering on the inscrutableness of the universe.
From Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers
Father and son have both died, as it were, in my presence, and both have departed for the world of spirits, in a manner to prove the inscrutableness of Providence.
From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper
And so much the more that it was so subterranean in him, so much the more did he feel its weird inscrutableness.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
My wonder was excited by the inscrutableness of the cause, but my wonder was unmixed with sorrow or fear.
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown
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