cimmerian

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cimmerian (comparative more cimmerian, superlative most cimmerian)

perpetually dark or gloomy
- 1631: Milton, L'Allegro
  
  There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
- 1740: George Frideric Handel and Charles Jennens, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
  
  As ragged as thy locks,
  In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
- 1820: Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry
  
  ...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours.
(figuratively) mentally dark; ignorant
- 1770: Baron D'Holbach, The System of Nature
  
  The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne.

perpetually dark or gloomy