单词 | delitescency |
释义 | delitescencyn. rare (archaic after 18th cent.). 1. The state or condition of being hidden; concealment; seclusion; = delitescence n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] > concealed condition hiding?c1225 concealment1608 latency1615 delitescence1632 concealedness1635 latentness1660 abscondment1694 delitescencya1697 occultation1758 latence1794 caving1867 a1697 J. Aubrey in Miscellanies (1721) Introd. p. viii From 1670 I thank God I have enjoyed a happy Delitescency. 1716 in Brathwait's Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys Pref. sig. A2 Republishing this facetious little Book, after a delitescency of near a Hundred Years. 1968 ‘Mercurius Oxoniensis’ Let. in Spectator 20 Dec. 873/1 I shall go safely to ground with my good friend squire Todhunter at Quainton, with whom I commonly enjoy my delitescency and sweet otiums. ΚΠ 1821 J. L. Adolphus Lett. to R. Heber i. 8 The mental organization of the poet, as well as of the novelist, is characterized (to speak craniologically) by an extraordinary developement of the passion for delitescency. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1697 |
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