obscurement

(əbˈskjʊəmənt)

a variant form of obscuration

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l'empirisme et le rationalisme s'etaient toujours obscurement

PHILOSOPHIE ET AUTORITE LOCIQUE: LA QUESTION VITALE POUR LA PHILOSOPHIE FRANCAISE/PHILOSOPHY AND LOGICAL AUTHORITY: THE VITAL QUESTION FOR FRENCH PHILOSOPHY

Freezing level surface to 9000, and then I have an AIRMET for terrain obscurement ...

WEATHER ACCIDENTS

Une mort sublime, comme celle que cherchent obscurement les amants malheureux (40).

L'adieu au poete : Glauber Rocha et L'Age de la Terre

The Beethovenian hero's experience of fragmentation is localized in a world of resonance, the "foret des sons" (59) where he perceives the chasm over which his worldly existence is suspended: "Une myriade de petites ames gravitaient obscurement en son ame vers un point fixe ...

Trinity and atheology: the listening self in Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe

If your face piece is dirty, you might as well be fighting a fire with a visual obscurement device on your mask.

Damage control: MMC(SS) Alkire

Il s'agissait, obscurement, d'un vieil homme qui s'etait fait une specialite, a bon droit, de peindre au lavis des fous rires.

Pourquoi privilegier la poesie?: La reponse des "recits" de bonnefoy

At one point, Muir directly compares glacial markings with God's famous writing on the wall in Daniel, marveling at the fresh revelations he finds in the rock walls of the Sierra: "Much notice has been taken of the writing on the wall of the Persian king's palace, but there is a writing on every wall, and though, like palimpsests, these pages are written line upon line and crossed again and again, none of these old palimpsests is ever wholly obliterated, and no other effacement or obscurement is made save by the writing of other scriptures over those that have gone before" (John of the Mountains 88).

Preserving "God's wildness" for redemptive baptism

(14) Pourtant, en denommant ce chapitre "chapitre de fantaisie," et en le placant au coeur meme du recit, Zola n'en devinait-il pas obscurement la portee symbolique?