retruse

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retruse

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From Latin retrusus (“concealed”), past participle of retrudere.

adjective more retruse · most retruse

Thrust backward; retruding.
obsolete abstruse 1662, Henry More, Preface to A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings I have a sense of something in me while I thus speak, which I must confess is of so retruse a nature that I want a name for it, unless I should adventure to term it

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@misc{retruse_2026,
  title = {retruse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/retruse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}