subtleize

Updated: May 18, 2025

There was one woman's handwriting the girls learned to identify, and she wrote more often than any more beautifully in the writing, more shameless in the meaning, as if, with the nethermost experience in sensuality, she was prepared to subtleize it and be the universal accuser of her sex. "What fiends must surround us!" exclaimed Agnes.

George Alfred Townsend - Bohemian Days: Three American Tales