vaguened

English edit

From vaguen +‎ -ed (suffix forming adjectives).

vaguened (comparative more vaguened, superlative most vaguened)

(informal) Made vague; blurred, obscured.
- 1985, Paul Ramsey, The Truth of Value: A Defense of Moral and Literary Judgment, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, →ISBN, page 71:
  Note well, though, that in all the vanishings, beauty vanishes no more than the rest of the experienced world, so it won't serve to use half-and-vaguened versions of such analysis to dismiss beauty as subjective.
- 1985 August, Paul Ramsey, “Jonathan V. Crewe. Unredeemed Rhetoric: Thomas Nashe and the Scandal of Authorship. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. 135 pages. Richard A. Lanham. The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. Paper. 252 pages. [book reviews]”, in Kenneth Bartlett, editor, Renaissance and Reformation = Renaissance et Réforme, volume IX (New Series; volume XXI overall), number 3, Mississauga, Ont.: Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 225:
  It is bothersome that [Richard A.] Lanham, who as a student of rhetoric was one of the best at showing the complexities of rhetorical interclassification, overclassification, and misclassification, should offer such a dividing into vaguened twoness.

made vague — see blurred

vaguened