D'ARKNESS, noun 1. Absence of light. And darkness was on the face of the deep. Genesis 1:2. 2. Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as the darkness of counsels. 3. A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance. Men loved darkness rather than light. John 3:19. 4. A private place; secrecy; privacy. What I tell in darkness that speak ye in light. Matthew 10:27. 5. Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness Matthew 22:13. 6. Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities. A day of clouds and thick darkness Joel 2:2. Is. viii. 7. Empire of Satan. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness Colossians 1:13. 8. Opakeness. Land of darkness the grave. Job 10:21.
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