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- adjective obsolete, rare
Translucent . - verb obsolete To
shine through .
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Examples
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May in your through-shine front your hearts thoughts see.
To the Countesse of Bedford John Donne 1921
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That mind which harboureth Philosophie, ought by reason of her sound health, make that bodie also sound and healthie: it ought to make her contentment to through-shine in all exteriour parts: it ought to shapen and modell all outward demeanours to the modell of it: and by consequence arme him that doth possesse it, with a gracious stoutnesse and lively audacite, with an active and pleasing gesture, and with a setled and cheerefull countenance.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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That mind which harboureth Philosophie, ought by reason of her sound health, make that bodie also sound and healthie: it ought to make her contentment to through-shine in all exteriour parts: it ought to shapen and modell all outward demeanours to the modell of it: and by consequence arme him that doth possesse it, with a gracious stoutnesse and lively audacite, with an active and pleasing gesture, and with a setled and cheerefull countenance.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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