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obˈscureness Now rare.
[f. obscure a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being obscure (in various senses); = obscurity.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 53 To knowe of Logike..For by argument it maketh euident Muche obscurenes. 1555Eden Decades 129 The obscurenesse of the caue into the which he was farre entered. 1570Billingsley Euclid x. xviii. 247 The difficulty and obscurenes of this booke. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iii. §2 The privateness or obscureness..of life of contemplative men. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Draught horse, If you discover some Spot, Obscureness, or Whiteness therein. 1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. viii. 247 The Imperfection of our manner of conceiving of Things, and the Obscureness of Language. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 82 The characters of humility, obscureness, and depression, were commonly attributed to the Jewish Messiah. |