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Webster 1913 Edition


Darkly

Dark′ly

,
adv.
1.
With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
What fame to future times conveys but
darkly
down.
Dryden.
so softly dark and
darkly
pure.
Byron.
2.
With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
Looking
darkly
at the clerguman.
Hawthorne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Darkly

D'ARKLY

,
adv.
Obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly; with imperfect light, clearness or knowledge.
They learn only what tradition has darkly conveyed to them. Anon.

Definition 2024


darkly

darkly

English

Adverb

darkly (comparative darklier or more darkly, superlative darkliest or most darkly)

  1. To appear as dark.
  2. (figuratively) mysterious.
  3. Faintly seen in the dark.
    • I could make out his image darkly.

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