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Translucent substance   /trænslˈusənt sˈəbstəns/   Listen
Translucent substance

noun
1.
A material having the property of admitting light diffusely; a partly transparent material.  Synonym: transparent substance.





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... Valentinus, who was contemporary with the Pauline writers of the second century, maintained that Jesus was not born of Mary by any process of conception, but merely passed through her, as light traverses a translucent substance. And finally Marcion (A. D. 140) carried the theory to its extreme limits by declaring that Jesus was the pure Pneuma or Spirit, who contained nothing ...
— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske


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