Adjective : an obscure sentence in the contract. ,obscure motivations. ,the obscure beginnings of a great movement. ,an obscure French artist. ,an obscure little town. ,an obscure back room. From Dictionary.com.
Surely you value precision more than obscureness here. From Wordnik.com. [Sperm donor 150 reads in the paper that his children are looking for him.] Reference
The dark companion, no longer able to hide itself by its obscureness, was brought out into the light of direct observation by means of its gravitational effects. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
Master Genius to learn the higher attributes of genius -- eccentricity and obscureness. From Wordnik.com. [The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Subdued splits and splutters whispered from out the obscureness, and a gentle grinding could be heard. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Snows] Reference
For seeing he was speaking about money, and his defence on that score, it is reasonable that what he says must be wrapt in obscureness. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
Something quick and subtle ran through my veins; something that for a few moments seemed to burn away the obscureness which blurs our thought. From Wordnik.com. [When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot] Reference
The coarse jest, the impure expression, the subtle inuendo, -- poisoning the more surely and deeply, by its very obscureness, -- where are these tolerated?. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Maiden] Reference
He had actually, in this parabolic, and commendable, obscureness, for which she thanked him in her soul, struck the very point she had not named and did not wish to hear named, but wished him to strike; he was anything but obtuse. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
The Rajah, it would appear, frowns interrogatively, in the princely fashion, accusing him of obscureness of speech: -- princes and the louder members of the grey public are fraternally instant to spurn at the whip of that which they do not immediately comprehend. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
It is necessary, however, in order to divest the subject of all obscureness, to trace, in the first instance, the progress of inland discovery, in New South Wales, from the first foundation of the colony to the period when Mr. Oxley's exertions attracted the public attention. From Wordnik.com. [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference
The obscureness of her birth. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
Whether a natural obscureness, hiding. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference
"The obscureness of her birth. From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
Retrench luxuriance, make obscureness plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry] Reference
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