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Definition of Darkening
1. Adjective. Becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over. "The darkening sky"
2. Noun. Changing to a darker color.
Generic synonyms: Change Of Color
Specialized synonyms: Obfuscation
Derivative terms: Darken, Darken
Definition of Darkening
1. n. Twilight; gloaming.
Definition of Darkening
1. Verb. (present participle of darken) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Darkening
1. darken [v] - See also: darken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Darkening
Literary usage of Darkening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"And o'er him, from the heavens to the earth, Phoebus Apollo drew a violet cloud,
darkening the region of the earth and air Above, below, the body, ..."
2. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1897)
"By night star-veiling, and by day darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this ..."
3. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge (1914)
"The presence of an iron-gall ink is indicated by the gradual darkening of such
... Determination of the darkening Capacity. The darkening capacity of the ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1919)
"The graph of the darkening produced in unit time by the radiation ... The total
amount of darkening will be proportional to the area between line C and the ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1892)
"... was presented by the Chairman : darkening OF SYRUP CONTAINING FERRI ...
NC Supposing this darkening of syrups containing ferri ..."
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