单词 | veiledness |
释义 | > as lemmasˈveiledness ˈveiledness n. rare before late 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [noun] > making obscure > obscure condition darknessc1384 darkc1405 veiledness1662 occultness1727 1662 Z. Mayne St Paul's Travailing-pangs 34 As Moses put a Vail upon his face to shew the vailedness of his Dispensation, so the Law was delivered with fire, to shew the fieriness of the Law unto the conscience. 1879 C. C. Clarke & M. C. Clarke Shakespeare Key 690 In the ‘Sonnets’, there is the same spirit of modesty..with the utmost veiledness of diction. 2000 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 19 Aug. 47 There's a veiledness about his answers which makes me wonder whether he reserves his feelings and powers of description for his poetry. < as lemmas |
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