caliginosity

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Stephen Pound, the Labour MP from Ealing North, will advocate caliginosity (dimness; darkness) on the floor of Parliament.

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  • Stephen Pound, the Labour MP from Ealing North, will advocate caliginosity (dimness; darkness) on the floor of Parliament. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • "I shall be drawing the Prime Minister's attention in a fairly obscure and abstruse way to the word: 'Amid the global fiscal turmoil, we sought illumination but found only caliginosity.'" —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness). —  Jezebel
  • I dare not ask the oracles: I prefer a cheerful caliginosity, as Sir Thomas Browne might say. —  Daniel Deronda
  • I dare not ask the oracles: I prefer a cheerful caliginosity, as Sir Thomas —  Daniel Deronda
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  1. from Latin as if *caliginosita (t-)s, from caliginosus, caliginous.
 

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