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Delitescency

Delitescency \Del`i*tes"cen*cy\, n. Concealment; seclusion.

The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency.
--Sir W. Scott.

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delitescency

n. concealment; seclusion