innubilous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin innubilus. By surface analysis, in- + nubilous.
Adjective
[edit]innubilous (not comparable)
- (obsolete, rare) Cloudless.
- 1726, The British Apollo, volume 2, page 515:
- No, 'tis a THOUGHT sprung ftom[sic] a ray divine,
Which will through clouds of lowring critics shine:
When in a clear innubilous serene,
The soul's abstracted, purg'd from dross and spleen;
- 1868, F. FitzGerald, The Course of Divine Love, volume 2, page 99:
- Through bright, innubilous, transparent skies, the sun pours fire that heats the rocks as by the breath of a furnace […]
- 1982, Iain Paul, Science, Theology and Einstein, page 26:
- With the future in their blood, their innubilous optimism sees little other than the eventual success and the ultimate importance of their researches.