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Definition of Obfuscating
1. obfuscate [v] - See also: obfuscate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obfuscating
Literary usage of Obfuscating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"The body works upon the mind, by obfuscating the spirits and corrupted instruments,
which 2 Perkins illustrates by simile of an artificer, that hath a bud ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1803)
"... and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place
where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was ..."
3. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"in which the burghers of New-Amsterdam met to talk and smoke over the complicated
affairs of the province, gradually obfuscating themselves with politics ..."
4. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"... the discipline of his analysis of the Latin language that he passes on to
criticize the loose or empty thinking obfuscating the minds of contemporaries. ..."
5. Works by Washington Irving (1893)
"... of New Amsterdam met to talk and smoke over the complicated affairs of the
province, gradually obfuscating themselves with politics and tobacco-smoke. ..."
6. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"But he made a vigorous effort, at the same time, to dissipate the misunderstandings
that had settled down upon all the group like an obfuscating fog. ..."
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