darkly

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

D'ARKLY, adverb Obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly; with imperfect light, clearness or knowledge. They learn only what tradition has darkly conveyed to them. Anon.
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