pellucidity

• “To be moist, muddy, rumpled and smeared, when by the very nature of your position it is your duty to be clear-starched up to the pellucidity of crystal, to be spotless as the lily, to be crisp as the ivy-leaf, and as clear in complexion as a rose, — is it not, O gentle readers, felt to be a disgrace?”

  The Duke's Children

• “I'd even managed to stop it translating what the occasional patronizing mugull would ask me every time I stopped to gape at some extraordinary sight, as "Is one's discombobulation requiring pellucidity?”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• “Diaphaneity, the noun form of diaphanous, is unfamiliar, and pellucidity could be confused with Pell grants.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• “The style, however, was pithy, and in writing that is the first Christian grace -- no, I forgot, it is the second; pellucidity is the first.”

  Love Me Little, Love Me Long

• “To be moist, muddy, rumpled and smeared, when by the very nature of your position it is your duty to be clear-starched up to the pellucidity of crystal, to be spotless as the lily, to be crisp as the ivy-leaf, and as clear in complexion as a rose, -- is it not, O gentle readers, felt to be a disgrace?”

  The Duke's Children

• “Lid originally made of mere opaque board, but changed latterly into a light frame, covered (_glazed_, so to speak) with entrails of animals, clarified into something of pellucidity.”

  Early Kings of Norway

• “And the other the post-remote effect; as the renewed pellucidity of the cornea; and thus six links of causation may be expressed in words.”

  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life

• “The same analogy may be used to explain the whiteness of the hair of old people, which loses its pellucidity along with its moisture.”

  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life

• “The Hydrocele is known by a tumor of the scrotum, which is without pain, gradually produced, with fluctuation, and a degree of pellucidity, when a candle is held behind it; it is the most simple incysted dropsy, as it is not in general complicated with other diseases, as ascites with schirrous liver, and hydrocephalus internus, with general debility.”

  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life

• “The red colour is owing to the pellucidity of the newly formed vessels, and as the arterial parts of them are probably formed before their correspondent venous parts.”

  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

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