delitescency
English
Noun
delitescency (uncountable)
- concealment; seclusion
- Sir Walter Scott
- The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency.
- Sir Walter Scott
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for delitescency in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)