uncommunicable

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But Bernard Levin, writing in The London Observer that same year, noted that “as a communication of the uncommunicable, ‘Conundrum’ is very good indeed.”

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2020

But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

She smiled, but the smile only gave you a new thrill; it was vacant and had no joy in it, rather an uncommunicable grief.

From Marm Lisa by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Humboldt is inclined to believe that the possibility of such a method of ascertaining longitude was that uncommunicable secret, which Sebastian Cabot many years later hinted at on his death-bed.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers by Iles, George

Th' inanimate forms, Nature's unchisel'd workmanship—unsullied By man's rude contact—'tis with these I hold Converse and high communion; And from the spirit that lives in them, free And uncommunicable intercourse My soul receives.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John