Clarify vs Clearness - What's the difference?
clarify | clearness |
To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.
* (rfdate) Ure:
To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
* (rfdate) South:
(ergative) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
* Leave the wine for 24 hours and it will clarify .
(ergative) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
(obsolete) To glorify.
(obsolete) Brightness, brilliancy.
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*:Thenne sayd he Fair swete fader Ihesu Cryst yf euer I dyd thyng that pleasyd the lord / for thy pyte ne haue me not in despyte for my synnes done afore tyme / and that thou shewe me some thynge of that I seke / And with that he sawe the chamber dore open and there came oute a grete clerenes / that the hows was as bryghte as all torches of the world had ben there
Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.
*1966 , "The Lowest Depths", Time , 6 September:
*:The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness .
The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc.
:The clearness of the water meant I could still see the key lying on the river-bed.
The state of being free from obstruction or interference.
:The clearness of the path made for an easy hike.
As a verb clarify
is to make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.As a noun clearness is
(obsolete) brightness, brilliancy.clarify
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en-verb)- Boiled and clarified .
- To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will.