occulted
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of occult
adj
Concealed, as by a body coming between.
Example Sentences
- "[…] when thou seest that act afoot, Even with the very comment of thy soul Observe my uncle. If his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech, It is a damned ghost that we have seen, […]"
- "Over the last eighteen years, America has quietly created an occulted imperium, quite distinct from the sprawling system of military and naval facilities through which America exerts physical force, based not on high politics, but on control of apparently apolitical plumbing facilities."
- "1893, Francis Thompson, Love in Dian’s Lap, VII. “Her Portrait” in Poems, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 24, […] nigh her lids eclipse Each half-occulted star beneath that lies;"
Inflected Forms
more occulted (comparative)
most occulted (superlative)