inconcealable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- + concealable.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inconcealable (comparative more inconcealable, superlative most inconcealable)
- Not concealable.
- Synonym: unconcealable
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- For the inconcealable imperfections of ourselves, or their daily examples in others, will hourly prompt us our corruption, and loudly tell us we are the sons of earth.
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 709:
- He sits in Whitehall, the year folding around him, aware of the shadow of his hand as it moves across the paper, his own inconcealable fist.
References
[edit]- “inconcealable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.