Front | recondite \REK-uhn-dahyt\ |
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Back | adjective 1. Concerned with a profound, esoteric, or difficult subject. 2. Little known; obscure. [From Latin recondere (to hide), re- (back) + condere (to put together), from con- (with) + -dere (to put). Earliest documented use: 1619.] "With its fragmented words, multilingual puns and recondite allusions, the verse of Paul Celan hovers on the edge of untranslatability." - Mark M. Anderson; A Poet at War With His Language; The New York Times; Dec 31, 2000. "The sight of beautiful people making beautiful babies is a huge turn-on; but a recondite TV actress dying in a state of dementia, as Marty would say, 'not so much'." - Lynn Crosbie; Brangelina Babies; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Aug 5, 2008. |
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