through-shine
English
Etymology
From through- + shine.
Adjective
through-shine (comparative more through-shine, superlative most through-shine)
- (obsolete, rare) Translucent.
Verb
through-shine (third-person singular simple present through-shines, present participle through-shining, simple past and past participle through-shone)
- (obsolete) To shine through.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 155:
- That mind which harboureth Philosophie, ought by reason of her sound health, make that bodie also sound and healthie: it ought to make her contenment to throughshine in all exteriour parts [...].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 155: