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▪ I. ‖ nuance, n.|nɥɑ̃s, ˈnuːɑ̃ːs, ˈnjuː-, -ɑːns|
[F. nuance shade of colour, etc., f. nuer to shade, f. nue cloud:—pop. L. *nuba for classical L. nūbēs.]
1. A slight or delicate variation or difference in expression, feeling, opinion, etc.
1781H. Walpole Let. to C'tess Ossory 4 Jan., The more expert one were at nuances, the more poetic one should be. 1846H. Greville Diary (1883) 165 The English and French difference on the Spanish question is considered as serious by people of every political nuance. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 255 Much of the obscurity..arises from our having lost the finer nuances of Athenian feeling respecting the persons satirized in the old Comedy.
2. A shade of colour; a slight difference or variation in shade or tone.
1856–7Geo. Eliot Scenes Clerical Life ii. iv, Whose face Nature seemed to have coloured in a hurry, and had no time to attend to nuances. 1879A. J. C. Hare Story Life (1900) V. xx. 160 Her rooms were draped with every possible nuance of colour which can harmonise together.
3. A delicate gradation in musical expression.
1879Grove Dict. Mus. I. 171 Comparatively careless as to the right notes being played, but angry..at any failure in expression or nuance. 1885Athenæum 7 Feb. 192/3 Some numbers were splendidly given... The nuances were also observed to a remarkable degree.
▪ II. nuance, v.|ˈnuːɑ̃ːs, ˈnjuː-, -ɑːns|
[f. the n.]
trans. To give nuances to. Hence ˈnuancing vbl. n.
1897W. Archer Theatr. World 1896 94 Nor the elocutionary skill to give variety to a long speech, nuancing it, if I may say so, by means of his voice alone. 1959M. Schlauch Eng. Lang. in Mod. Times ii. iii. 53 Some tendencies toward such nuancing may be detected in the late medieval distribution of thou and ye for the singular. 1973P. A. Allum Politics & Society in Post-War Naples vi. 191 We can nuance this conclusion and reveal that in some communes the relation of the first to the fourth candidate was 2:1..; in other communes the difference between first and fourth was less than 1,000 votes out of 5,000. 1975Gramophone Oct. 652/1 Take the Wagner piece.., and note the impassioned recitative, nuanced as by the human voice. |