delitescency

English

Noun

delitescency (uncountable)

1. (archaic) concealment or hiddenness; seclusion

   Synonym: delitescence

   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency.

References

• “delitescency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.