All 7 Uses of
obscure
in
A Room of One's Own
- For here again we come within range of that very interesting and obscure masculine complex which has had so much influence upon the woman's movement; that deep-seated desire, not so much that SHE shall be inferior as that HE shall be superior, which plants him wherever one looks, not only in front of the arts, but barring the way to politics too, even when the risk to himself seems infinitesimal and the suppliant humble and devoted.
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *obscure = little understood
- What a waste that the woman who wrote 'the best bred women are those whose minds are civilest' should have frittered her time away scribbling nonsense and plunging ever deeper into obscurity and folly till the people crowded round her coach when she issued out.†
Chpt 4 *
- All these infinitely obscure lives remain to be recorded, I said, addressing Mary Carmichael as if she were present; and went on in thought through the streets of London feeling in imagination the pressure of dumbness, the accumulation of unrecorded life, whether from the women at the street corners with their arms akimbo, and the rings embedded in their fat swollen fingers, talking with a gesticulation like the swing of Shakespeare's words; or from the violet-sellers and match-sellers…
Chpt 5 (definition 2)obscure = not known to many people; or undistinguished
- And partly for some more obscure reason. There seemed to be some obstacle, some impediment in Mr A's mind which blocked the fountain of creative energy and shored it within narrow limits.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)obscure = not clearly seen, understood, or expressed
- ...thanks to the toils of those obscure women in the past, of whom I wish we knew more,
Chpt 6 (definition 2) *obscure = not known to many people
- Thus, with some time on your hands and with some book learning in your brains—you have had enough of the other kind, and are sent to college partly, I suspect, to be uneducated—surely you should embark upon another stage of your very long, very laborious and highly obscure career.†
Chpt 6
- But I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worth while.
Chpt 6 (definition 2)obscurity = less commonly known