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Ineffability

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in·ef·fa·ble  (n-f-bl)
adj.
1. Incapable of being expressed; indescribable or unutterable. See Synonyms at unspeakable.
2. Not to be uttered; taboo: the ineffable name of God.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ineffbilis : in-, not; see in-1 + effbilis, utterable (from effr, to utter : ex-, ex- + fr, to speak; see bh-2 in Indo-European roots).]
in·effa·bili·ty, in·effa·ble·ness n.
in·effa·bly adv.
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Thus to speak of the Holocaust in religious terms--to preach the ineffability of the Event, to invoke the incomprehensibility of the camps, to use all those units of theological language to say what we believe cannot be said and thus to remove it from the mundane--this too is a kind of denial.
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