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  • noun Plural form of darknesse.
  • noun Plural form of darkness.

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Examples

  • But these are really "darknesses" that act as magical pixie dust to keep the gravity "only" model from being falsified.

    New CMB Measurements Support Standard Model | Universe Today 2009

  • There are darknesses lurking in the music, though.

    Hänsel und Gretel: Fatten kid. Cook. Then eat 2011

  • He passed out of the forest and into the moonlit open where were no shadows nor darknesses.

    The Trail of the Gods 2010

  • I could not remember if I had dreamt of you; my dreams are shadows, always, that slip quickly from the bright morning, hasting to their familiar darknesses to wait for sleep to come again.

    The Future and Why We are Afraid Kenton deAngeli 2011

  • We, as personalities, float like fog-wisps through glooms and darknesses and light-flashings.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • The days pass -- if the interval of sombre gray that comes between the darknesses can be called day.

    CHAPTER XXXV 2010

  • He did not live for food, for shelter, for a comfortable place between the darknesses that rounded existence.

    CHAPTER XXI 2010

  • The focus has shifted from romantic relationships to motherhood's bumpy terrain: through her candid depictions of its darknesses and pleasures, she delivers a novel which is just as disturbing, and possibly more potent still, than her last.

    The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell 2010

  • Intensely at work, Rabbi became a lighthouse dispersing various darknesses troubling each of us.

    On Pesach Eve: The Muslim and Her Inner Jew 2010

  • It seems to me that the darknesses of difficulty, disillusionment, disappointment or discouragement are there so that we can better exercise our light, our presence for love, compassion, empathy and sheer human creativity and wisdom.

    Anne Naylor: Overcome Doubt: Celebrate What Is Right With You 2010

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