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inarticulacy

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in·ar·tic·u·late  (när-tky-lt)
adj.
1. Uttered without the use of normal words or syllables; incomprehensible as speech or language: "a cry . . . that . . . sank down into an inarticulate whine" (Jack London).
2. Unable to speak; speechless: inarticulate with astonishment.
3. Unable to speak with clarity or eloquence: an inarticulate debater.
4. Going unexpressed: inarticulate sorrow.
5. Biology Not having joints or segments.
inar·ticu·late·ly adv.
inar·ticu·late·ness, inar·ticu·la·cy (-l-s) n.
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inarticulacy
n (form) → Inartikuliertheit f (geh), → mangelnde Wortgewandtheit f; he was reduced to inarticulacy → er konnte keine Worte mehr finden


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But it is not so much these frequent references to inarticulacy as the texture of the poem itself that functions as a telling inarticulacy.
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His longest quote does demonstrate a certain inarticulacy but this might be because it is ever so slightly misquoted, with the word "in" substituted for the word "an.
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