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单词 velation
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velationn.

Etymology: < late Latin vēlātio, < vēlāre to veil.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: veˈlation.
rare.
1. The action of veiling or the fact of being veiled.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > indistinctness
undistinction1647
shadowinessa1672
indistinctness1704
obscure1787
muzz1843
fogginess1853
blur1860
blurredness1864
veiling1864
fuzziness1866
blear1868
nebulousness1878
incertitude1883
velation1922
blurriness1937
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 686 The visible signs of postsatisfaction? A silent contemplation: a tentative velation.
2. The formation of a velum.
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1891 in Cent. Dict.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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