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Definition of Shrouded
1. a. Provided with a shroud or shrouds.
Definition of Shrouded
1. Adjective. Wearing, or provided with a shroud. ¹
2. Adjective. Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud. ¹
3. Verb. (past of shroud) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shrouded
1. shroud [v] - See also: shroud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrouded
Literary usage of Shrouded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"... secrecy which had shrouded the 'Mission' of Niel. the secrecy Nothing short of
... shrouded favouring circumstances surfaced to lay bare the •mission. ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"The cloud-shrouded arm gives the weapon; The priests they erase it with care and
with pain, And the recreant returned to the cavern again; ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"be shrouded his life; a man of retired habits, of few friends, he stood outside
and apart from the whole circle of literary ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"The history of the discovery and first attempt to quarry bhie- stone for the
market is shrouded in uncertainty. It is known, FlO. 8. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"Thick darkness shrouded earth and sky, When on the whispering winds there came
The Teton's wild and thrilling cry, And heaven was pierced with shafts of ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"Aztec, as the descendants of an American flora whose traces are lost in far-off
geologic ages, even as the forefathers of the Aztec are shrouded in the mist ..."