Cimmerian

Word CIMMERIAN
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /sɪˈmɪəɹɪən/

Definitions and meanings of "Cimmerian"

What do we mean by cimmerian?

Perpetually dark or gloomy

Mentally dark; ignorant

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The word "cimmerian" in example sentences

This might get some raised eyebrows (not the "People's Eyebrow," Darius), but since we're on the subject of wrestlers and Conan, I've always wanted to see Triple H in the role of the cimmerian. ❋ Reis O'Brien (2010)

Her "cimmerian light" work had her walking through a landscape of shade and light contained in bowls, in shimmering cloth and on a glistening wire sculpture that rose 20 feet high. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For all this they had emerged from that cimmerian darkness in which they had lived so long, and the dawn of better things, of more stable government, of some elementary recognition of the rights of those governed, was beginning to show above the murky horizon. ❋ E. Hamilton Currey (N/A)

"Very good, sir," answered the old chief as he lifted his podgy legs over the coaming of the hatchway, prior to burying himself in the cimmerian darkness of the opening, wherein Mr Fosset and his men had already vanished. ❋ Henry [Illustrator] Austin (N/A)

The Frenchwoman, by virtue of centuries of activity, in the world and in the field, has become an expert in the art of knowing her man; she has not worked by his side, under the burn of the noon sun, or in the cimmerian darkness of the shop-rear, counting the pennies, for nothing. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)

With cimmerian blackness on all sides of them, and a chaotic tunnel ahead, they were happy. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)

There was a flight of steps ending in cimmerian darkness. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)

'It appeared to us,' he says, 'so grey, so cimmerian and so dead that we shuddered at it as at a ghost. ❋ Edward Caldwell Moore (1900)

Is thy beacon in very truth a star; shining eternal in our cimmerian sky, a guide infallible to life's worn voyager; or a wandering fire such as the foolish follow, -- a lying flame that leads the trusting traveler to his loss? ❋ Unknown (1898)

"Who's there below?" repeated the captain, endeavouring to pierce the cimmerian darkness by waving the lighted lantern about and holding it as far down the hatchway as his arm could reach. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Down I went into the cimmerian gloom -- clambering step by step to a depth of fully thirteen feet; for the place, as I afterwards learned, when I had more leisure for observation, was a cube, just thirteen feet each way. ❋ William Pittenger (1872)

In the misuse you have already made of legal terms you have converted an incorporeal hereditament into lands and tenements, and pray, sir, how can a planet shrouded in a cimmerian opacity shed light. ❋ Unknown (1862)

The other half is buried in the cimmerian night of slavery. ❋ Jermain Wesley (1859)

No! it is to degrade him in the eye of reason; to violate every regard for truth; to set moral decency at defiance; to fall back into the depth of cimmerian darkness. ❋ Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (1756)

After that it pleased God, by the light of his glorious gospel, to dispel the more than cimmerian darkness of antichristianism, and, by the antidote of reformation, to avoid the poison of Popery; forasmuch as in England and ❋ George Gillespie (1630)

Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia. ❋ Unknown (2009)

epic pooh, j.r.r. tolkien, michael moorcock, robert e. howard, the cimmerian comments: ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)

It is very pleasant to close our eyes and believe -- if we can -- that the world is gradually working out its salvation; that it is steadily "growing grander and nobler"; to preach against "the sins of pessimism"; but unfortunately the stubborn fact is all too palpable that the shadow of the social world grows ever broader and deeper; that while the sunlight gilds the mountain tops the great valleys, wherein are congregated the millions of "poor people who have no work," are buried in cimmerian night. ❋ Unknown (1898)

He was come, he said, to enlighten the spiritual darkness which prevailed, with the bright light of truth; to clear away the rubbish he had to encounter with the sword of the spirit, to shed the clear luster of the gospel sun on this benighted clime, which night cimmerian sic shrouded in one vast o’erwhelming fog of spiritual death! ❋ Unknown (2007)

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