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Definition of Bedarkening
1. bedarken [v] - See also: bedarken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedarkening
Literary usage of Bedarkening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fortnightly Review (1869)
"Then backward if thou cast reproachful looks On sports bedarkening custom erst
allowed, Expect from coming ages like rebukes When day shall dawn on ..."
2. Essays, Moral and Political by Robert Southey (1832)
"... man who understands the system can have doubted, that its character is indelible;
that it is still the same be- darkened and bedarkening superstition. ..."
3. Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852)
"... behold certain objects in a bedarkening blaze of light, or rather of
light-confounding brightness, the multiplied and heightened reflection of whatever ..."
4. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1810)
"... and bedarkening superstition. Bishop Gardiner has his advocates ; the tricks
of the continental miracle- mongers are circulated here as undoubted works ..."
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