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The term "inestimable" is deployed across literature to denote a quality or object whose worth transcends conventional measurement. In various contexts, authors invoke the word to highlight a value that is both immeasurable and indispensable. For instance, in the realm of literary and historical reverence, figures such as Homer and Shakespeare are described as having an inestimable value [1], while tangible treasures like diamond necklaces and ancient fabrics are equally lauded for their priceless nature [2, 3]. Moreover, the adjective is not confined to material objects; it extends to abstract qualities such as pleasure, divine love, and moral goodness [4, 5, 6]. Even in scientific and biographical accounts, the term emphasizes contributions of monumental worth that shape fields and lives, as seen in the acknowledgment of influential scholars and treatises [7, 8]. Collectively, these examples demonstrate literary authors’ tendency to use "inestimable" as a powerful descriptor for things that surpass ordinary valuation.
  1. I have eulogized Homer, the sacred bards of Jewry, Eschylus, Juvenal, Shakspere, &c., and acknowledged their inestimable value.
    — from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman
  2. A diamond necklace, with pendants of inestimable value, were by this means also made more conspicuous.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  3. This fabric, common as it is in our day, was in ancient times of inestimable value.
    — from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
  4. I found her, the one I was waiting for, and through her I enjoyed inestimable pleasure.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  5. inestimable [6] Love that Almighty God hath to us of His Goodness.
    — from Revelations of Divine Love
  6. I will write a letter of thanks this night, if I am able, to my kind patron, for his inestimable goodness to me.
    — from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
  7. A former student and disciple of Wundt, who recognizes to the full his inestimable services to our science, cannot avoid making certain comparisons.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  8. He published the inestimable Treatise De Augmentis Scientiarum .
    — from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

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