If this conclusion be true, Providence has happily so constituted the best of the species, that the sordid feeling is too latent to be discovered; and least of all was any one of the three, who passed the first hours of the night around the cabin table of the " Royal Caroline," to be included in so selfish a class. "The Red Rover" by James Fenimore Cooper

The clinical features are sometimes remarkably latent and are much less striking than might be expected, especially when the hip affection occurs as a complication of an acute illness such as scarlet fever. "Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition." by Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson

It is therefore retained, just as the latent heat in the water of an ice- covered pond is retained. "Nature's Serial Story" by E. P. Roe