Darkness

Word DARKNESS
Character 8
Hyphenation dark ness
Pronunciations /ˈdɑːknəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Darkness"

What do we mean by darkness?

The state of being dark; lack of light.

Gloom.

The product of being dark.

The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.

Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Darkness

The word "darkness" in example sentences

While it is true that, regardless of the conditions in our little room, darkness still exists wherever there is no light, and light still exists wherever there is no darkness, yet for this particular room _there is no darkness when the sun shines in_, and _there is no light when the room is filled with darkness_. ❋ George Herbert Betts (1901)

And, says One, _if the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness_! [ ❋ Of Clairvaux Bernard (1899)

Queen Ranavalona does not like darkness, so we condemned it at once -- unanimously -- for we could not for a moment tolerate anything with _darkness_ in it. " ❋ Francis B. Pearson (1859)

Therefore, to distinguish between what appertains to the primary polarity, Levity-Gravity, on the one hand, and their visible effects in the secondary polarity of the colours, on the other, we shall henceforth reserve the term darkness and, with it, lightness for instances where the perceptible components of the respective colours are concerned, while speaking of Dark and Light where reference is made to the generating primary polarity. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)

Further there are some affirmations which we make concerning God which have the force of absolute negation: for example, when we use the term darkness, in reference to God, we do not mean darkness itself, but that He is not light but above light: and when we speak of Him as light, we mean that ❋ Unknown (1898)

To walk in darkness is to live and act according to such ignorance, error, and erroneous practice, as are contrary to the fundamental dictates of our holy religion. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The ability to control the darkness is the ability to command the light, and the ability to control the waters is the ability to delimit their boundaries and make them useful rather than destructive; useful for sustaining life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Often at night when I can hear mysterious and magic voices, when I can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with bent head and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

One bright light in the darkness is a new program offered by Veterans Affairs Canada called Operational Stress Injury Support Services (OSISS), which began offering peer-support counseling to returning soldiers of all rank, bars and stripes, including active-duty, reservists and veterans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Red lightsabers for a Jedi, odd, looks like the darkness is already reaching you. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It differs for the particular characters involved in each song, of course, but the darkness is always there on the edge of things or not very far beneath the surface. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Whether the darkness is a resurrected Master is another thing. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)

For what we call darkness in divine subjects is nothing else than their celestial glory and splendour striking on the weak ball of our eyes, the rays of which we are not able in this life, which “is but a vapour” (and that not very clear), “which appeareth but for a little,” to bear. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

This stillness of the ether is what we call darkness, which corresponds with a dead level in the case of water. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

According to the Seer, the inhabitants of Jupiter will not cultivate the sciences, which they call darkness; those of Mercury abhor the expression of ideas by speech, which seems to them too material, -- their language is ocular; those of Saturn are continually tempted by evil spirits; those of the ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

In his Easter Vigil homily, the Archbishop said the violence leads its perpetrators nowhere except to fill their own lives and hearts with what he called the darkness of death. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But man having a weaker sight than any other animal is less hurt by a very strong light and his pupil increases but little in dark places; but in the eyes of these nocturnal animals, the horned owl -- a bird which is the largest of all nocturnal birds -- the power of vision increases so much that in the faintest nocturnal light (which we call darkness) it sees with much more distinctness than we do in the splendour of noon day, at which time these birds remain hidden in dark holes; or if indeed they are compelled to come out into the open air lighted up by the sun, they contract their pupils so much that their power of sight diminishes together with the quantity of light admitted. ❋ 1452-1519 Leonardo Da Vinci (1485)

They dare linger no later than this, for the dreadful darkness is approaching, in which the world is given over to the carnage of the hunting animals, while the fore-runners of man hide tremblingly in their holes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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