Word Meanings - SUBOBSCURELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.

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• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• DONNEE
  Lit., given; hence, in a literary work, as a drama or tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story. W. E. Henley. That favorite romance donnée of the heir kept out of his own. Saintsbury.
• OBSCURELY
  In an obscure manner. Milton.
• DARKLY
  1. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron. 2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• CORDONNET
  Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.