Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Darkness; dimness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Darkness.
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- noun The
darkness ,obscurity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is apodeictic that the caliginosity of the agrestic embrangle periapts with mansuetude.
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With mansuetude compossible with my muliebrity, I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
Archive 2008-10-01 Angry Professor 2008
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It may beggar the agrestical among us; but, at the risk of sounding elitist, RN rescues himself from utter contemptuous caliginosity when he discusses the pair of genius recipients of the prestigious Macarthur Fellowships.
The Ampersand's Daily Dose of High- & Low-Downs Judith Fitzgerald 2008
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With mansuetude compossible with my muliebrity, I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
A malison on the poor of spirit. Angry Professor 2008
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Earlier on, in comparing her with Van der Linden and the Zwanziger woman, I have lessened her caliginosity as compared with that of the Leyden poisoner, giving her credit for one less death than her Dutch sister in crime.
She Stands Accused 1935
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I dare not ask the oracles: I prefer a cheerful caliginosity, as Sir Thomas
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness).
Jezebel 2009
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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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"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.'"
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those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
A Gentleman's C Angry Professor 2008
qms commented on the word caliginosity
Some candidates opt for pomposity
Or hide in evasive verbosity;
They shed little light
But thicken the night
With cynical caliginosity.
December 4, 2015