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translucence|trɑːnsˈl(j)uːsəns, træns-, -nz-|
[f. as next: see -ence.]
1. The action or fact of shining through.
1826Coleridge Two Founts 27 The soul's translucence thro' her crystal shrine! 1830― Lett., to Mrs. Gillman (1895) 754 What appeared to you a translucence of the love of the good, the true, and the beautiful from within me. 1868Farrar Silence & V. i. (1875) 18 Nature, which is but the visible translucence of a divine agency working upon material things. 1875Masson Wordsw., etc. 123 All the secrets of the earth's interior..are revealed in continuous translucence.
2. Transparency to light: = translucency.
1755Johnson, Transparency, clearness; diaphaneity; translucence; power of transmitting light. 1847–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 246/2 The epithelium beyond is of excessive delicacy and translucence. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 592 Having a wax-like translucence.
fig.1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 271, I admire the translucence of his character, and its strength. |