darkling
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English derkelyng, from derk (“dark”) + -lyng (“-ling”).
The verb darkle is a back-formation from darkling.
[edit] Noun
darkling (plural darklings)
[edit] Adjective
darkling (comparative more darkling, superlative most darkling)
- dark; darkening
- 1867, Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach:
- And we are here as on a darkling plain
- Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
- Where ignorant armies clash by night
- 1867, Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach:
- obscure, done or happening 'in the dark' or unseen
[edit] Adverb
darkling (comparative more darkling, superlative most darkling)
- in the dark, obscurely
[edit] Verb
darkling
- Present participle of darkle.
[edit] References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967