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obscuring |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Obscure \Ob*scure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obscured}; p. pr & vb n. {Obscuring}.] [L. obscurare fr obscurus: cf OF obscurer. See {Obscure}, a.] To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious. They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights. --Shak. Why, 't is an office of discovery, love, And I should be obscured. --Shak. There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this --Wake. And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame? --Dryden.
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