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I shall be drawing the Prime Minister's attention in a fairly obscure and abstruse way to the word: 'Amid the global fiscal turmoil, we sought illumination but found only caliginosity.'

From Time Magazine Archive

Apodeictic, muliebrity, mansuetude, even caducity, caliginosity, nitid, agrestic, roborant or vilipend have Latin or Greek roots that are very familiar to me and most high school graduates.

From Time Magazine Archive

I dare not ask the oracles: I prefer a cheerful caliginosity, as Sir Thomas Browne might say.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George