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incunable

  • /ɪnˈkjuːnəbəl/

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From French incunable, from Latin incūnābula (“swaddling-clothes, cradle”).

noun incunables

  1. alternative Alternative form of incunabulum Nerciat rubbed shoulders with D.H. Lawrence, the Large Paper set of de Sade (Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare) jostled an incunable Hermes Trismegistus, and ten different editions of L'Histoire d'O were piquant bedfellows to De la Bodin's Démonomanie des Sorciers.

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"incunable." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/incunable. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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incunable. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/incunable

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"incunable." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/incunable.

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@misc{incunable_2026,
  title = {incunable},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/incunable},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}