subobscurely

English

Etymology

From subobscure +‎ -ly.

Adverb

subobscurely (not comparable)

1. Somewhat obscurely or darkly.
   • 1624, John Donne, Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, edited by John Sparrow, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, →OCLC:

     from thy second book, the book of nature, where, though subobscurely and in shadows, thou hast expressed thine own image

References

“subobscurely”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.