Vapory

/ˈveɪpəɹi/ · adjective

Meaning

Resembling vapor; vaporous..

Definitions by Sense

1. Resembling vapor; vaporous.
2. Characterized by the presence of vapor; full of, or obscured by, vapor.

Example Sentences

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But here again, Christians consider the word literally, as though the Lord would appear upon the vapory clouds over our heads.

The greatest damps however, that may ever roll upon your spirits, will arise from the stupidity of sinners, and the vapory dullness of declining Christians.

Long at the window he stood, and wistfully gazed on the landscape, / Washed with a cold gray mist, the vapory breath of the east-wind,

At the same moment it chanced that the vapory fleece hanging low in the East, was shot thro' with a soft glory as of the fleece of the Lamb of God seen in mystical vision, […]

The most fetid and poisonous smells everywhere prevailed; and by the aid of that ghastly light which, even at midnight, never fails to emanate from a vapory and pestilential atmosphere, might be discerned lying in the by-paths and alleys, or rotting in the windowless habitations, the carcass of many a nocturnal plunderer arrested by the hand of the plague in the very perpetration of his robbery.

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• more vapory
• most vapory
• vapoury

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