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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.

Translations

Etymology

From dark +‎ -ly.

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