subobscurely
advEtymology From subobscure + -ly.
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Somewhat obscurely or darkly.
- O my God, (euer conſtant to thine ovvne vvayes), thou haſt proceeded opẽly [openly], intelligibly, manifeſtly, by the book. […] [F]rõ [from] thy ſecond book, the booke of Nature, vvher though ſubobſcurely, and in ſhadovvs, thou haſt expreſſed thine ovvn Image; […]1624, John Donne, “IX. Expostulation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 217–218: