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Obscurity

noun

The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand. Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness.

An obscure and unimportant standing; not well known.

The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination. Synonym: obscureness.

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"Obscurity" Quotes from Famous Books

... the regret that the whole region was in such profound obscurity. Even if the moon had been in full glory but few observations could have been made. At this season of the year an immense curtain of snow, an icy carapace, covers up the polar surface. There was none of that ice "blink" to be seen, that whitish tint of which ...

— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne

... which few but herself knew. Her sufferings did not in any way affect her spirits, and she was quite cheerful the afternoon of her death. Of an evening I used to sit with her for an hour in her room, with no other light—for she was very fond of this semi-obscurity—than that of the gas-lamp in the street. Her lively imagination would then assume free scope, and, as so often happens with old people, the recollections of her early days came back with special force ...

— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan

... but his room still remains unaltered—a large wainscoted upper chamber, thirty feet long, with three windows looking on to the quay, with carved and ornamented chimney-piece and ceiling. A great obscurity, as was to be expected, hangs over the transaction, as even now there are men who shrink from lifting up a finger against the Lord's anointed. Dinner had been ordered at four, but it was not till eleven, that it was served, and that the die had been cast. The members of the ...

— East Anglia - Personal Recollections and Historical Associations • J. Ewing Ritchie

... what next took place in the smoky obscurity above the fire, for the branch seemed to wave about more and more, and to lengthen; and then I made sure that it was the shadow I saw; but directly after, a thrill ran through me as I recalled that these creatures were fond of nestling high up in branches, where they captured ...

— Bunyip Land - A Story of Adventure in New Guinea • George Manville Fenn

... "Sacrifice all, and let us go!" He seemed even to invite her to say it, but she strove with herself. Sacrifice of his career meant sacrifice of the whole man. Not in her eyes, oh no!—but she had studied him so well, and knew that he could no longer be content in obscurity. She choked her very ...

— Denzil Quarrier • George Gissing

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