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po·rous

(pôr′əs)

adj.

1. Admitting the passage of gas or liquid through pores or interstices.

2. Easily crossed or penetrated: a porous border.

[Middle English, from Old French poreux, poros, from Medieval Latin porōsus, from Latin porus, passage; see pore².]

po′rous·ly adv.

po′rous·ness n.

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"Today, we don't recognise the border," Collins said, pointing to how freely and porously the two countries trade and interact.

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Unfolding a series of personal and collective crises in a text that porously reflects and ridicules the state of the literary tradition, this novel is Galt's extended essay on the Scotland of his day.

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In Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies, Rebecca Kukla traces current conceptions of pregnancy to a late eighteenth-century split in the figuration of the maternal body into two: "an unruly, capricious, improperly and porously bounded body" and a " 'natural' body enjoying perfect unity and reciprocity with its child" (67).