rare. [f. as next: see -ENCE, and cf. F. transparence (c. 1400 in Godef., Compl.).] = TRANSPARENCY 1.

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1594.  Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits (1616), 84. That which cannot be read, with oyle is made legible, by yeelding thereto a brightnesse and transparence.

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1598.  Florio, Trasparenza, a transparence or through-light.

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1619.  Drayton, Man in Moon, 332. Cleere Amber … Through whose transparence you might easly see The beds of Pearle whereon the Gum did sleepe.

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1845.  R. W. Hamilton, Pop. Educ., x. (ed. 2), 270. Motive may be detected through the transparence of tendency.

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1866.  J. G. Murphy, Comm. Exod. xxiv. 10. Adamantine solidity, transparence, and brilliancy.

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  † b.  transf. = TRANSPARENCY 2. Obs.

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1635.  Heywood, Hierarch., IX. 575. The casements standing wide Clearely through that transparance is espy’de This Glutton.

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1789.  E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., IV. 343. O’er her light limbs the dim transparence plays, And the fair form it seems to hide, betrays.

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