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Latently  adv.  In a secret or concealed manner; invisibly.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Latently" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fact that both ladies had visited Europe, establishing topics of conversation, they presently warmed into cordiality. I found them well informed and agreeable, less demonstrative in their self-assertion than their Northern sisterhood, but latently wilful, and assumptive of a superior elevation hardly justified by their general air of languid refinement. It reminded me, on the whole, of what I had heard complacently eulogized in Charleston as a tendency toward 'Orientalism' on the part of the women, of which ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... thing to hold a principle vaguely or latently as implicated in a principle already avowed, and another thing to extricate the implied principle and kindle it, as on the top of a lighthouse, on its own account. It is found, accordingly, that the early English Separatists collectively ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson

... compounded in such subordination that neither of them predominates to the eye, constitute the negative or neutral colours, of which black and white have been stated to be the opposed extremes, and greys their intermediates. Thus black and white are constituted of, and comprise latently, the principles of all colours, and accompany them in their depth and ...
— Field's Chromatography - or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists • George Field

... slavery is dead, but the ideas he then avowed are still powerfully, if more latently, asserting ...
— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam



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