"ineffable" meaning in French

See ineffable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /i.nɛ.fabl/, /i.ne.fabl/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-ineffable.wav Forms: ineffables [plural]
Rhymes: -abl Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ineffābilis. Etymology templates: {{bor+|fr|la|ineffābilis}} Borrowed from Latin ineffābilis Head templates: {{fr-adj}} ineffable (plural ineffables)
  1. ineffable (unable to be expressed in words) Synonyms: inénarrable, indicible
    Sense id: en-ineffable-fr-adj-EDmXHYxU Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "english": "It seemed to him appropriate and necessary, as much for his own glory as for the service of his country, that he should become a knight-errant, and go about the world, with his horse and his weapons, looking for adventures, and practising everything that he had read that knights-errant practised, redressing all sorts of wrongs, and exposing themselves to so many encounters, to so many perils, that he should gain, in surmounting them, eternal fame. He already imagined himself, the poor dreamer, seeing himself crowned at least by the emperor of Trebizond. So carried away was he by such pleasant thoughts and by the ineffable attraction that he found in them, he hurried to put his desire into practice.",
          "roman": "Il lui parut convenable et nécessaire, aussi bien pour l’éclat de sa gloire que pour le service de son pays, de se faire chevalier errant, de s’en aller par le monde, avec son cheval et ses armes, chercher les aventures, et de pratiquer tout ce qu’il avait lu que pratiquaient les chevaliers errants, redressant toutes sortes de torts, et s’exposant à tant de rencontres, à tant de périls, qu’il acquît, en les surmontant, une éternelle renommée. Il s’imaginait déjà, le pauvre rêveur, voir couronner la valeur de son bras au moins par l’empire de Trébizonde. Ainsi emporté par de si douces pensées et par l’ineffable attrait qu’il y trouvait, il se hâta de mettre son désir en pratique.",
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