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Definition of Darkly
1. Adverb. Without light. "The river was sliding darkly under the mist"
2. Adverb. In a dark glowering menacing manner. "He stared darkly at her"
Definition of Darkly
1. adv. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
Definition of Darkly
1. Adverb. to appear as dark ¹
2. Adverb. (figuratively) mysterious ¹
3. Adverb. faintly seen in the dark ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Darkly
1. in a dark manner [adv -LIER, -LIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Darkly
Literary usage of Darkly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons by Hugh Blair (1822)
"For now we see through a glass, darkly.—1 COR. xiii. 12. THE Apostle here describes
the imperfection of our knowledge with relation to spiritual and eternal ..."
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"They came back with shrill cries over the jutting shoulder of the house, flying
darkly against the fading air. What birds were they ? ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(14) The theology of Zoroaster was darkly comprehended by foreigners, and even
by the far greater number of his disciples ; but the most careless obser vers ..."
4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"... Glass, darkly. To know the special figure of the Crown-Prince's way of life
in those years, who his friends, companions were, what his pursuits and ..."
5. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... darkly To know the special figure of the Crown-Prince's way of life in those
years, who his friends ..."
6. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"CHAPTER XXXIV IN WHICH IT IS darkly SEEN HOW THE CRIMINAL'S JUDGE MAY BE LOVE'S
CRIMINAL WHEN we are losing balance on a precipice we do not think much of ..."
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