obscuringlyadv.
/əbˈskjʊərɪŋli/, /əbˈskjɔːrɪŋli/, U.S. /əbˈskjʊrɪŋli/, /ɑbˈskjʊrɪŋli/ rare.
So as to obscure.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adverb] > obscurely
cloudiously1602
obscuredly1629
shadowingly1635
obscuringly1865
smokily1897
1865 N. Amer. Rev. July 191 To thrust itself obscuringly between us and the perhaps more important event of yesterday.
1902 New Liberal Rev. Aug. 317 The Celtic fringes hang obscuringly over our eyes, as fringes do under befeathered hats in the Old Kent Road.
1974 P. J. Kavanagh Edward Thomas in Heaven in Coll. Poems (1992) Obscuringly angered he only sometimes sees.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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