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Incomprehensibly

Incomprehensible \In*com`pre*hen"si*ble\, a. [L. incomprehensibilis: cf. F. incompr['e]hensible. See In- not, and Comprehensible.]

  1. Not capable of being contained within limits.

    An infinite and incomprehensible substance.
    --Hooker.

  2. Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable.

    And all her numbered stars that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible.
    --Milton. -- In*com`pre*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- In*com`pre*hen"si*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incomprehensibly

early 15c., from incomprehensible + -ly (2).

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incomprehensibly

adv. In an incomprehensible manner.

Usage examples of "incomprehensibly".

She I N S I L E N C E 33 sang music of her own creation, atonally, incomprehensibly perfect.

She complained incomprehensibly about the terrorism alerts: "Why did Ashcroft insist on issuing the alerts?

Seers ordinarily go to pieces on finding out that existence is incomprehensibly complex and that our normal awareness maligns it with its limitations.

But then, when it comes to the spiritual orientation that will supplant and heal this agency-laden "patriarchal" worldview, she ends up almost incomprehensibly championing a broad form of vipassana/Theravadin Buddhism, the East's archetypal and merely Ascending path, which is radically dualistic and hyper-hyperagentic, a pure Goddess-denying, Descent-denying, Goodness-denying, Plenitude-denying path, a path that historically has denied and devalued the body, the earth (samsara), sex (and the ultimate sin-temptation, woman).

At the physical level, we see only fleeting glimpses and surface phenomena of an inwardly dimensioned whole of incomprehensibly vast proportions.

Amber gapes upward as a Shenyang F-30 climbs at a near-vertical angle, a mess of incomprehensibly curved flight surfaces vanishing to a perspective point that defies radar as well as eyeballs.

And in a sense these two desires – at first glance incomprehensibly inconsistent, I would imagine, to those without equivalent fixations – characterise obsessives and encapsulate their dilemma.

Like some monstrous quartz crystal or the great tooth of some incomprehensibly huge monster lying on its side, half buried in old rock, it lay mere, shifting now and again without actually moving in a way none of them could quite reconcile, its jagged, hollowed-out end drawing them in.

Seated in a beautiful courtyard, surrounded by alien flowers and a woman from a culture that often seemed incomprehensibly cruel, Kevin, third son of the Baron of Zun, took a deep breath and tried to take stock of who he was.