Definitions

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  • noun Concealment; seclusion.

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  • noun concealment; seclusion

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Examples

  • If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed, I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent; namely, that the mental organisation of the novelist must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency!

    Waverley 2004

  • Novelist must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency!

    The Waverley 1877

  • If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed, I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent; namely, that the mental organisation of the novelist must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency!

    Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed, I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent; namely, that the mental organisation of the novelist must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency!

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed, I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent; namely, that the mental organisation of the novelist must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency!

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • From 1670 to this very day (I thank God) I have enjoyed a happy delitescency.

    Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661

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