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Retruse

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Thrust backward; retruding.
  2. 2
    abstruse obsolete

    "1662, Henry More, Preface to A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings I have a sense of something in me while I thus speak, which I must confess is of so retruse a nature that I want a name for it, unless I should adventure to term it"

Etymology

From Latin retrusus (“concealed”), past participle of retrudere.

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