Definitions
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- noun poetic Utter
darkness , without anyray of light . - noun botany The condition of being
rayless
Etymologies
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rayless + -ness
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Examples
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What it meant taking on was Franklin's raylessness, Franklin's obscurity, Franklin's dun-colour -- could a wife escape the infection?
Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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I knew that I had now fully recovered the use of my visual faculties -- and yet it was dark -- all dark -- the intense and utter raylessness of the Night that endureth for evermore.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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