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transparence rare.|trɑːnsˈpɛərəns, træns-, -ˈpær-|
[f. as next: see -ence, and cf. F. transparence (c 1400 in Godef. Compl.).]
= transparency 1.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 84 That which cannot be read, with oyle is made legible, by yeelding thereto a brightnesse and transparence. 1598Florio, Trasparenza, a transparence or through-light. 1619Drayton Man in Moon 332 Cleere Amber..Through whose transparence you might easly see The beds of Pearle whereon the Gum did sleepe. 1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. x. (ed. 2) 270 Motive may be detected through the transparence of tendency. 1866J. G. Murphy Comm. Exod. xxiv. 10 Adamantine solidity, transparence, and brilliancy.
†b. transf. = transparency 2. Obs.
1635Heywood Hierarch. ix. 575 The casements standing wide Clearely through that transparance is espy'de This Glutton. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. iv. 343 O'er her light limbs the dim transparence plays, And the fair form it seems to hide, betrays. |