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Vapory
//ˈveɪpəɹi// adj
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling vapor; vaporous.
"But here again, Christians consider the word literally, as though the Lord would appear upon the vapory clouds over our heads."
- 2 Characterized by the presence of vapor; full of, or obscured by, vapor.
"The most fetid and poisonous smells everywhere prevailed; and by the aid of that ghastly light which, even at midnight, never fails to emanate from a vapory and pestilential atmosphere, might be discerned lying in the by-paths and alleys, or rotting in the windowless habitations, the carcass of many a nocturnal plunderer arrested by the hand of the plague in the very perpetration of his robbery."
Etymology
From vapor + -y.
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