Crossword-Solution: OBSCURENESS 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The Rajah, it would appear, frowns interrogatively, in the princely fashion, accusing him of obscureness of speech:--princes and the louder members of the grey public are fraternally instant to spurn at the whip of that which they do not immediately comprehend.

And as for the privateness or obscureness (as it may be in vulgar estimation accounted) of life of contemplative men, it is a theme so common to extol a private life, not taxed with sensuality and sloth, in comparison and to the disadvantage of a civil life, for safety, liberty, pleasure, and dignity, or at least freedom from indignity, as no man handleth it but handleth it well; such a consonancy it hath to men’s conceits in the expressing, and to men’s consents in the allowing.

The dark companion, no longer able to hide itself by its obscureness, was brought out into the light of direct observation by means of its gravitational effects.

How many live, the glory of whose name Shall rest in ice, while thine is graved in marble! 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.

The coarse jest, the impure expression, the subtle inuendo,--poisoning the more surely and deeply, by its very obscureness,--where are these tolerated? Where woman maintains the high rank of her sex? No! for she has but to frown on such improprieties, and steadily, and on all occasions, to discountenance them, and they are banished from the social circle.