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Woodslim Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
glacine?
from the book I'm reading now,
"In such passages, the body's presence is not qualified by the glacine and cutting reflex of his style..." (here, his=Marx's)
I can't find the word "glacine" in any dictionary. What does it mean? Or is it misspelled?
"In such passages, the body's presence is not qualified by the glacine and cutting reflex of his style..." (here, his=Marx's)
I can't find the word "glacine" in any dictionary. What does it mean? Or is it misspelled?
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woodslim I can't find the word "glacine" in any dictionary. What does it mean? Or is it misspelled?
- woodslim I can't find the word "glacine" in any dictionary.
- What does it mean?
- Or is it misspelled?
- I suspect the writer may have misspelt 'glassine', used metaphorically to mean 'clear', or something like that.
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woodslimI can't find the word "glacine" in any dictionary. What does it mean? Or is it misspelled?I suspect the writer may have misspelt 'glassine', used metaphorically to mean 'clear', or something like that.
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Oh, possibly... something like 'clear'. Yeah, it makes sense in that context.
Thanks a lot for your answer
Thanks a lot for your answer
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