Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of undecipher
- not comparableThat does not decipher.
Every night before going to bed, she would drink herself into her present undeciphering state. Then she would only half know what was happening and her fears and disgust would be diluted too.
1981, Bernice Rubens, Birds of passage, page 1782 more examples
Somewhere I would find a Chairman of the Board or a President who would[…]let me found a magnificent cold realm of people naked under their own moons and suns, smiling their ambiguous smiles to the undeciphering sky, going down to their unready deaths or lives because they had somehow managed to squeeze the impossible choice from the unchoosable alternatives they offered themselves[…]
1968, Daniel Stern, The Suicide Academy[…]earth whose tumultuous face I can only compare to the virgin and mad forest which were it in my power I would show in guise of a face to the undeciphering eyes of men [translating French yeux indéchiffreurs]
1983, Aimé Césaire, “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land”, in Clayton Eshleman, Annette Smith, transl., The Collected Poetry, page 45
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