shadowish

English

Etymology

From shadow +‎ -ish.

Adjective

shadowish (comparative more shadowish, superlative most shadowish)

(obsolete) Shadowy; vague.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  ours being that truth whereof theirs was but a shadowish prefigurative resemblance

Further reading

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

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