delitescency

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delitescency - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Delitescency \Del`i*tes"cen*cy\, n.
     Concealment; seclusion.
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           The mental organization of the novelist must be
           characterized, to speak craniologically, by an
           extraordinary development of the passion for
           delitescency.                            --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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