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Definition of Opaquer
1. opaque [adj] - See also: opaque
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opaquer
Literary usage of Opaquer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1893)
"If you would read a friend aright you must be able to read through something
thicker and opaquer than horn. If you can read a friend, all languages will be ..."
2. The Descent of man and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... rasp appeared to me thicker, opaquer, and more prominent in three males than
in the same number of females; in order, therefore, to discover whether the ..."
3. The Jacobean Poets by Edmund Gosse (1894)
"In Watson had long ago passed away a talent still more trivial, ingenious, and
innocent. All those writers were wholly unlike the coarser, opaquer and ..."
4. Irish Idylls by Jane Barlow (1893)
"... but opaquer substitutes are not at all exceptional; and in every case the door
practically shuts out the daylight, unless the wall-chinks gape abnorma ..."
5. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles ( Darwin (1851)
"... is, by the special action of the walls of the gland, changed into the opaquer
cellular matter in the ducts, and this again subsequently into that tissue ..."
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