[f. as next: see -ENCE.]

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  1.  The action or fact of shining through.

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1826.  Coleridge, Two Founts, 27. The soul’s translucence thro’ her crystal shrine! Ibid. (1830), Lett., to Mrs. Gillman (1895), 754. What appeared to you a translucence of the love of the good, the true, and the beautiful from within me.

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1868.  Farrar, Silence & V., i. (1875), 18. Nature, which is but the visible translucence of a divine agency working upon material things.

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1875.  Masson, Wordsw., etc., 123. All the Secrets of the earth’s interior … are revealed in continuous translucence.

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  2.  Transparency to light: = TRANSLUCENCY.

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1755.  Johnson, Transparency, clearness; diaphaneity; translucence; power of transmitting light.

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1847–9.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. 246/2. The epithelium beyond is of excessive delicacy and translucence.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 592. Having a wax-like translucence.

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  fig.  1859.  I. Taylor, Logic in Theol., 271. I admire the translucence of his character, and its strength.

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