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‖ éclaircissement
Forms: 7–8 ec(c)lercisment, -clarcis(e)ment.
[F. éclaircissement (eklɛrsismɑ̃) clearing up, f. éclairciss-, éclaircir to clear up. Very common in 18th c.]
1. A clearing up or revelation of what is obscure or unknown; an explanation.
1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode v. i, This éclaircissement, which is made this day of your quality. 1716Pope Let. in Lady M. W. Montague's Lett. xxxiii. I. 117 You could give me great eclaircissements upon many passages in Homer. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) III. lxxxiii. 294 Their mutual astonishment was unspeakable at the eclaircissement. 1792Pitt in Academy No. 616. 132/2 His readiness to give me any eclaircissement. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xv, When the éclaircissement comes there will be a scene.
2. A mutual explanation of equivocal conduct; esp. in phrase, to come to an éclaircissement.
a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xii. III. 243 Till the first interview and eclarcisements were passed between the King & Queen. 1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. iii, To get me to meet Loveit here in order to an ecclaircisement. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. lxxiii. 419 As soon as you are prepared to speak all that is upon your mind..then we may come to an eclaircissement. 1815Scott Guy M. xx, Such..restraints as might prevent any engagement or eclaircissement taking place. |