Retruse
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Thrust backward; retruding.
- 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"
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More examples"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.