inscrutableness

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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 Melville, Herman

Mr. Spencer finds the basis of all religion in the inscrutableness of the Power which the universe manifests to us.

From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Menzies, Allan

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 Cooper, James Fenimore

He saw that human life doth truly come from that, which all men are agreed to call by the name of God; and that it partakes of the unravelable inscrutableness of God.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

This conception of the merry Sphinx may seem strange to the dyspeptic philosopher pondering on the inscrutableness of the universe.

From Humanly Speaking by Crothers, Samuel McChord