Ineffable

ineffable: [in-ef-uh-buhl] adj. another 14th century word, meaning inexpressible, too sacred to be spoken


This words pops up more than once during the musical CATS.


A stillness, strange, divine, ineffable,
Broods round and o’er them in the wind’s surcease,
And on each tinted copse and shimmering dell
Rests the mute rapture of deep hearted peace.
----Paul Hamilton Hayne
Aspects of the Pines


Out of the deep ineffable blue, with palpitant swift repeating
Of gleam and glitter and opaline glow, that broke in ripples of light—
In burning glory it came and went,—I heard, I saw it beating,
Pulse by pulse, from star to star,—the passionate heart of the Night!
----Mary C. G. Byron
The Tryst of the Night