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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

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.

With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.

Looking

darkly

at the clerguman.

Hawthorne.

adv.

Obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly; with imperfect light, clearness or knowledge.

They learn only what tradition has darkly conveyed to them. Anon.