through-shine

English

Etymology

From through- +‎ shine.

Adjective

through-shine (not comparable)

(obsolete, rare) Translucent.

Verb

through-shine (third-person singular simple present through-shines, present participle through-shining, simple past and past participle through-shone)

(obsolete) To shine through.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.155:
  That mind which harboureth Philosophie, ought by reason of her sound health, make that bodie also sound and healthie: it ought to make her contenment to throughshine in all exteriour parts […].

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