dislimn

[ dis-lim ]

verb (used with object)

, Archaic.

1. to cause to become dim or indistinct.

dislimn

/ dɪsˈlɪm /

verb

1. poetic.
   tr to efface

Word History and Origins

Origin of dislimn¹

First recorded in 1600–10; dis- ¹ + limn

Example Sentences

Into fingers and tresses the running waters dislimn, and then, that great obstacle passed, their hundred rillets run together again and go on their way with music.

From Project Gutenberg

Those are happy who can take it otherwise; with that I found things all beginning to dislimn.

From Project Gutenberg

But in the darkness dim Those lineaments did waver and dislimn Like clouds at the sun's waking.

From Project Gutenberg

But at last the visible world, the wall before him, commenced to dislimn; it shifted; it became mist, writhing and tinged with faint colors, that submerged his will and his consciousness, till they sank, gathering impetus, into a void below—the vacancy of the spirit that looses its hold on the body and is rudderless.

From Project Gutenberg

Features of this latter sort "dislimn" and yield, as the writing on palimpsests, to the regal majesty of the divine countenance, which none can look upon and smile.

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