Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Obscured.
  • Figuratively, existing in mental or moral darkness; sunk in ignorance: as, “this bedarkened race,”

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bedarken.
  • adjective Dim, dark, or obscure

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Examples

  • Sure hope the GOP are proud of the dimest bulb in a scary, bedarkened world.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: July 17, 2006 2006

  • These appearances indeed melt together for my interest, I once more feel, as, during the interminable stretch of the prescribed and for the most part solitary airings and outings involved in my slow convalescence from the extremity of fever, I approached that straitened and somewhat bedarkened issue of the Rue de l'Écu (was it?) toward the bright-coloured, strongly-peopled Port just where Merridew's English

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

  • Idling there at noon in the twilight of the dust-bedarkened windows, we fill the tiers of those high galleries with ladies, the space below with grooms and pages; the stage is ablaze with torches, and an Italian Masque, such as our Marlowe dreamed of, fills the scene.

    New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Idling there at noon in the twilight of the dust-bedarkened windows, we fill the tiers of those high galleries with ladies, the space below with grooms and pages; the stage is ablaze with torches, and an Italian Masque, such as our Marlowe dreamed of, fills the scene.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Idling there at noon in the twilight of the dust-bedarkened windows, we fill the tiers of those high galleries with ladies, the space below with grooms and pages; the stage is ablaze with torches, and an Italian Masque, such as our Marlowe dreamed of, fills the scene.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

  • The author has amplified on the grounds of his faith, to a degree that might seem superfluous, if the question had not become so utterly bemazed and bedarkened of late.

    Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851

  • Hope; with its horse-racings, balloon-flyings, and finer sensibilities of the heart: ah, gone is that; its golden effulgence paled, bedarkened in this singular manner, -- brewing towards preternatural weather!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Infallibly: for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous; -- till the cry,

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • The author has amplified on the grounds of his faith, to a degree that might seem superfluous, if the question had not become so utterly bemazed and bedarkened of late.

    Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Margaret Fuller 1830

  • Infallibly: for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous; -- till the cry, "_Arrest_ your knaves and dastards rises imperative from millions of hearts, and rings and reigns from sea to sea.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

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