Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or condition of being latescent; the state of becoming obscured or lost to view.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A slight withdrawal from view or knowledge.
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- noun rare The condition of being
latescent ;obscurity
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In other words it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence.
What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872
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