shadowish
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]shadowish (comparative more shadowish, superlative most shadowish)
- (obsolete) Shadowy; vague.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- ours being that truth whereof theirs was but a shadowish prefigurative resemblance
Further reading
[edit]- “shadowish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.