obnubilatedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

obnubilate +‎ -ed (suffix forming perfect participial adjectives)

形容詞

obnubilated (not comparable)

1. (literally and figuratively) Obscured; dimmed or hidden with or as if with a cloud.
   • 1830, Robert Chambers, The Life of King James the First I, ch. ix, p. 246:

     James…found his mind, perhaps, in that obnubilated state, which we generally experience when told any thing very much out of the common way, or of which we cannot well make the different facts tally.

   • 1839 Apr., George Raymond, “The Prince of Darkness” in Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine and Humorist LV, ed. T. Hook, № ccxx, p. 514:

     Pipkin […] might possibly be acquainted with him, and so accost him by name; and it might turn out, if the undiscovered were but a bit of an egoist, he would indulge in some narration of “himself and times,” whereby his obnubilated patronymic might transpire to the fullest content.

   • 1935, Samuel Beckett, Watt:

     Do not despair, Mr. Graves. Some day the clouds will roll away, and the sun, so long obnubilated, burst forth, for you, Mr. Graves, at last.

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