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mistiness|ˈmɪstɪnɪs|
[f. misty a.1 + -ness.]
A condition of being misty; dimness, obscurity; also concr. or semi-concr. = vapour, haze, mist. Said of the atmosphere and of the eyes or sight.
1382Wyclif Deut. iv. 11 There weren in it [Sinai] derknessis, and clowde, and mystynes [Vulg. caligo]. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 89 A heavisome mistinesse is cast before our eyes. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxii. 130 God..did set a Cloude darkenesse and mistinesse before him. 1626Bacon Sylva §91 The Mistinesse scattereth and breaketh up suddenly. 1656Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 38 The cloudinesse, and mistinesse of the aire. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. 355 Mistinesses, which give to my deluged eye the appearance of all the colours in the rainbow. 1838James Robber iii, The mistiness of the mid-day sunshine. 1863M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. i, The red August sunset was melting into grey mistiness. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 306 The..extent of the mistiness or obscurity is governed by the..extent of the impaired portion of retina.
b. of language and thought.
[1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 24 The holy Prophets of God..did not call the worde of God darkeness, obscurenesse, or mistinesse.] 1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 40 If he makes use of a little metaphysical mistiness. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer xx, I cannot even shelter myself under the mistiness of the peremptory we. 1898Pall Mall Mag. Feb. 250 In the mistiness of waking thought. |