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Definition
clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so
- By the way, I hope you understood, too, that some apparently uncomplimentary references to Slubgob were purely jocular.Chapter 19 (11% in)
- His real motive for fixing on sex as the method of reproduction among humans is only too apparent from the use He has made of it.Chapter 18 (44% in)
- We have engineered a great increase in the licence which society allows to the representation of the apparent nude (not the real nude) in art, and its exhibition on the stage or the bathing beach.Chapter 20 (50% in)
- Apparently He wants some—but only a very few—of the human animals with which He is peopling Heaven to have had the experience of resisting us through an earthly life of sixty or seventy years.Chapter 28 (94% in)
There are no more uses of "apparent" in The Screwtape Letters.
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