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Definition of Obscurest
1. obscure [adj] - See also: obscure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obscurest
Literary usage of Obscurest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"A good man, through obscurest aspiration, H.is still an instinct of the one true
way,— Goethe proclaims his faith in human nature through all its errors and ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and in the obscurest of styles. The recipient was warned against attending
Parliament on the day appointed, and hints were added as to the specific ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"the aggregated wisdom and learning of many preceding ages, though to appearance,
he himself was the obscurest and most illiterate of our species ; therefore ..."
4. The Theological Review by Charles Beard (1879)
"... bases his history of the religion of the Hebrews, not on the data furnished
by the oldest and obscurest age, but on the later period and teaching of the ..."
5. Republican Christianity, Or, True Liberty, as Exhibited in the Life by Elias Lyman Magoon (1849)
"... as follows: Christianity arose in the deepest gloom; is designed to mitigate
the keenest pangs; and pour solace upon the obscurest children of mankind. ..."
6. The Baptist Magazine by Baptist Missionary Society (1833)
"In calculating this eclipse, too, the writer has computed for every digit of the
solar eclipse beheld at he obscurest point in the moon's periphery, ..."
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