obscureness

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And while his aesthetic seems like ingratiating wholesome Americana, there’s an avant-garde obscureness underneath it.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

The place so offensive for its cloudiness, is,   —The obscureness of her birth   Cannot eclipse the lustre of her eyes,   Which make her all one light.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

"The obscureness of her birth Cannot eclipse the lustre of her eyes Which make her all one light."

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

Something quick and subtle ran through my veins; something that for a few moments seemed to burn away the obscureness which blurs our thought.

From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider

Thou mayst in after ages live esteemed, Unburied in these lines, reserved in pureness; These shall entomb those eyes, that have redeemed Me from the vulgar, thee from all obscureness.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote