obscuration

How to use obscuration in a sentence

• At length his intellect broke through these obscurations and showed what it truly was.

  Recollections and Impressions | Octavius Brooks Frothingham

• Roughly calculating from the passing obscurations, there must have been twelve or fifteen in all.

  Sally Dows and Other Stories | Bret Harte

• Numerous instances are on record of partial obscurations of the sun which could not be accounted for by any known cause.

  Meteoric astronomy: | Daniel Kirkwood

• Chladni and other physicists have regarded the transit of meteoric masses as the most probable cause of these obscurations.

  Meteoric astronomy: | Daniel Kirkwood

• While professing to give the passages needful explanations, they had heaped upon them impenetrable obscurations.

  Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again | Joseph Barker