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  1. The absolute or comparative absence of light, or the modification of visual sensation produced by such absence; gloom. It may be due either to a deficient illumination, or to a low degree of luminosity or transparency in the dark object. Darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. A Provynce of the Contree, that hathe wel in circuyt 3 iorneyes, that men clepen Hanyson, is alle covered with Derknesse, with outen ony brightnesse or light; so that no man may see ne here, ne no man dar entren in to hem. Mandeville, Travels, p. 260. Darkness might then be defined as ether at rest; light as ether in motion. But in reality the ether is never at rest, for in the absence of light-waves we have heat-waves always speeding through it. Tyndall, Radiation, § 2.
  2. Secrecy; concealment; privacy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Mat. x. 27. Though lately we intended To keep in darkness what occasion now Reveals. Shak., T. N., v. 1.
  3. The state of being blind physically; blindness. His eyes, before they had their will, Were shrivell'd into darkness in his head. Tennyson, Godiva.
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  • At Pascha the darkness is the darkness of death and Hell where Christ has gone to raise the dead. —  Glory to God for All Things
  • At Nativity the darkness is the cave in which he is born. —  Glory to God for All Things
  • This darkness is the darkness of the world that is caught in sin and death - but it is the same darkness as Hell. —  Glory to God for All Things
  • He would grow up to become a great prayer, this little boy, but only intermittently, only fitfully, praying only when fear and desperation drove him to it, and the night he threw Old Rabbit into the darkness was the night that set the pattern, the night that taught him how. —  Mandy Stadtmiller dot com
  • In the middle of the darkness was a big circle of light. —  GUYANA
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  1. from Middle English derknesse, darkness; from dark + -ness.
 

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