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English
Etymology
From umbrose + -ity, or borrowed from Latin umbrōsitās.
Noun
umbrosity (uncountable)
- (rare) Shade, shadiness.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:the interstitial divisions being continuated by the accession of oil, it becometh more transparent, and admits the visible rays with less umbrosity
1806, John Claudius Loudon, A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences, page 352:Shrubberies. […] The judicious introduction of views of more distant scenery; which is most frequently desirable, unless in such parts as, by way of contrast, are preserved in umbrosity.
1839, Thomas MacGill, A hand book, or guide, for strangers visiting Malta, page 20:Cotton is grown here as an annual, yet in some strong lands it is allowed to remain in the ground for two seasons […] from the umbrosity of its foliage, and its hoeings, it leaves the land, in a fit and open state to receive a winter crop.
2007, Michael J. A. Speyer, The Chronicles of Samuel Sassodoro, Book Two, page 30:The architecture of winecellar-cum-dungeon prohibited a smooth transition from illumination to umbrosity. Lasse's logic was sound: Concentrate on the penumbral areas; any useful item in the deep shadow cannot be seen and any such object in the light will have been removed.
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