Vapory
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
Example
More examples"But here again, Christians consider the word literally, as though the Lord would appear upon the vapory clouds over our heads."
Etymology
From vapor + -y.
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