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Definition: Darkness |
DarknessNoun1. Absence of light or illumination. 2. An unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness". 3. Absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness". 4. An unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness". 5. Having a dark or somber color. 6. A swarthy complexion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "darkness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Darkness The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Ex. 10:21) is described as darkness "which may be felt." It covered "all the land of Egypt," so that "they saw not one another." It did not extend to the land of Goshen (ver. 23). When Jesus hung upon the cross (Matt. 27:45; Luke 23:44), from the "sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour." On Mount Sinai, Moses (Ex. 20:21) "drew near unto the thick darkness where God was." This was the "thick cloud upon the mount" in which Jehovah was when he spake unto Moses there. The Lord dwelt in the cloud upon the mercy-seat (1 Kings 8:12), the cloud of glory. When the psalmist (Ps. 97:2) describes the inscrutable nature of God's workings among the sons of men, he says, "Clouds and darkness are round about him." God dwells in thick darkness. Darkness (Isa. 13:9, 10; Matt. 24:29) also is a symbol of the judgments that attend on the coming of the Lord. It is a symbol of misery and adversity (Job 18:6; Ps. 107:10; Isa. 8:22; Ezek. 30:18). The "day of darkness" in Joel 2:2, caused by clouds of locusts, is a symbol of the obscurity which overhangs all divine proceedings. "Works of darkness" are impure actions (Eph. 5:11). "Outer darkness" refers to the darkness of the streets in the East, which are never lighted up by any public or private lamps after nightfall, in contrast with the blaze of cheerful light in the house. It is also a symbol of ignorance (Isa. 9:2; 60:2; Matt. 6:23) and of death (Job 10:21; 17:13). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Darkness is the absence of light, and also the lack of knowledge (ignorance). It is also associated with mystery and with unknown things.
According to Western tradition Darkness is also the name given to the realm of evil, evil entities, demons, Satan, and by extension to evil itself, Hell and the Underworld.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Darkness."
Synonyms: DarknessSynonyms: dark (n), duskiness (n), iniquity (n), shadow (n), swarthiness (n), wickedness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: light (n), lightness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contrariety | Adjective: contrary, contrarious, contrariant; opposite, counter, dead against; converse, reverse; opposed, contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing; conflicting, inconsistent, contradictory, at cross purposes; negative; hostile. differing toto coelo; diametrically opposite; diametrically opposed; as opposite as black and white, as opposite as light and darkness, as opposite as fire and water, as opposite as the poles; as different as night and day; " Hyperion to a satyr"; quite the contrary, quite the reverse;no such thing, just the other way, tout au contraire. |
Heaven | Phrase: "looks through nature up to the nature's god"; "the great world;s altarstairs, that slope through darkness up to God"; "the treasury of everlasting joy"; vigeur de dessus. |
Ignorance | Phrase: "ignorance never settles a question"; quantum animis erroris inest!; "small Latin and less Greek"; "that unlettered small-knowing soul"; "there is no darkness but ignorance". |
Noun: ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse; unfamiliarity, unacquaintance; unconsciousness; Adjective: darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity. | |
Impiety | The wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness. |
Latency Implication | Darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility. |
Obscurity | Noun: obscurity; (unintelligibility); involution; hard words; ambiguity; unintelligibleness; vagueness; inexactness; what d'ye call 'em; (neologism); darkness of meaning. |
Satan | The tempter; the evil one, the evil spirit; the Adversary; the archenemy; the author of evil, the wicked one, the old Serpent; the Prince of darkness, the Prince of this world, the Prince of the power of the air; the foul fiend, the arch fiend; the devil incarnate; the common enemy, the angel of the bottomless pit; Abaddon, Apollyon. |
Fallen angels, unclean spirits, devils; the rulers, the powers of darkness; inhabitants of Pandemonium; demon. | |
Uncertainty | Vagueness; Adjective: haze, fog; obscurity; (darkness); ambiguity; (double meaning); contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission. |
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Screenplays | I'm telling you this guy is protected from up on high by the Prince of Darkness. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie.) Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) What if you can go back in time, and take away all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better (Donnie Darko; writing credit: Richard Kelly) First came darkness, then came the strangers (Dark City; writing credit: Alex Proyas) | |
Lyrics | Make us one with darkness. (One With Darkness; performing artist: Cher) Be gone, Prince of Darkness (Prince Of Darkness; performing artist: The Nylons) Somewhere in this darkness (When I'm Gone; performing artist: 3 DOORS DOWN) You can take the darkness from the pit of the night (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply) Out of the darkness, into the light (I Go To Extremes; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Clever | Better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness. (references; author: unknown) It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Darkness Falls (2003) Embrace the Darkness 3 (2002) And Soon the Darkness (1970) Seven in Darkness (1969) A Darkness at Blaisedon (1968) | |
Song Titles | Reach Out of The Darkness (performing artist: Friend and Lover) Prince of Darkness (performing artist: The Nylons) | |
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 | Delivering supplies to the Clean Air Facility in Antarctic winter darkness. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Crewmen on USS Boston (CA-69) consume night rations after repelling a Japanese torpedo plane attack in the darkness off Formosa, 14 October 1944. The men are (from left to right): Storekeeper 3rd Class J.F. Livingston; Coxwain H. Lowe; Seaman 1st Class K.A. Kalajian; and Seaman 2nd Class F.L. Dugan. Note stretchers serving as seats, Dugan's life jacket and helmet (with liner). Credit: NAVY. |
 | He stood smiling out on the moon-scattered darkness. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | He fired into the darkness ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Darkness at noon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wierd sisters; minister's[sic] of darkness; minions of the moon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Little Eva converting Topsy--"In that moment a ray of real belief, a ray of heavenly love, had penetrated the darkness of her heathen soul". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | As darkness falls, the brakeman hangs out the markers on the caboose on the route to Fort Madison, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dawn after darkness! / Alex. O. Levy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Light parted from darkness, day from night, earth from the primal waters, and the voice of Paul Robeson was divided from the silence. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Beneath a veil of darkness" by Filip Schneider Commentary: "Winter early evening." | "Candle, brass, darkness" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "People will look at you funny when you're taking closeup shots of a candle in a bar (if you use this i'd love to hear from you -- thanks)." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Desiderius Erasmus | Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. |
Henry David Thoreau | Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. |
| True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. | |
Iris Murdoch | Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. |
Jean Paul Richter | The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. |
Lao-Tzu | Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. |
Laurence Sterne | Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. |
Ovid | Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. |
William Shakespeare | Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | When the bush had sunk quite out of our sight, marble steps were seen, leading downwards into darkness. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Makes you wonder what culinary heights the kitchen staff could rise to if you confined them to perpetual darkness. Could be worth a try, I think |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed |
The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The ambition which he felt astir at times in the darkness of his soul sought no outlet |
A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Madeleine L'Engle | At terra at this fateful hour I call upon all heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lighting with its rapid wrath, And the winds with the swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, All this I place,By God's Almighty help and grace, Between myself and the powers of darkness. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The silent hours steal on, And flaky darkness breaks within the east |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The three men climbed over the fence and disappeared into the darkness. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick that you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is. |
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Health | The body’s level of melatonin normally increases after darkness falls, making people feel drowsy. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Egypt | In April an appeals court rejected the case against the film "Birds of Darkness," which the plaintiffs charged was insulting to lawyers. (references) |
Turkey | In October Kurdish writer Mehmet Uzun's book "Creating a Language" was confiscated by the Istanbul SSC on the grounds that it "incited hatred and enmity." In April a court acquitted Uzun of charges of "assisting illegal organizations" (the PKK) for his book "Brightness Like Love, Darkness Like Death." A group of human rights activists, actors, journalists, and academicians have mounted a series of challenges to existing legal restrictions on expression by republishing banned articles and signing their names as the "publishers." In September a military court acquitted 16 members of this group of charges that they "turned persons away from military service", but at year's end they still faced charges at the Istanbul SSC. In October another group of 65 activists published a new "Freedom of Thought" booklet and began their trial at the Istanbul SSC on charges of supporting illegal organizations and spreading separatism. (references) | |
Human Rights | Morocco | The book described Marzouki's ordeal, including the cruelty of the guards, torture, solitary confinement, and the perpetual darkness. (references) |
Travel | Bolivia | In La Paz the average daytime temperature is 60 degrees Fahrenheit for most of the year, with temperatures dropping quite a bit after darkness falls. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to study the science of government, appointed one hundred of his fattest subjects as members of a parliament to make laws for the collection of revenue. Forty of these he named the Party of Opposition and had his Prime Minister carefully instruct them in their duty of opposing every royal measure. Nevertheless, the first one that was submitted passed unanimously. Greatly displeased, the King vetoed it, informing the Opposition that if they did that again they would pay for their obstinacy with their heads. The entire forty promptly disemboweled themselves. "What shall we do now?" the King asked. "Liberal institutions cannot be maintained without a party of Opposition." "Splendor of the universe," replied the Prime Minister, "it is true these dogs of darkness have no longer their credentials, but all is not lost. Leave the matter to this worm of the dust." So the Minister had the bodies of his Majesty's Opposition embalmed and stuffed with straw, put back into the seats of power and nailed there. Forty votes were recorded against every bill and the nation prospered. But one day a bill imposing a tax on warts was defeated -- the members of the Government party had not been nailed to their seats! This so enraged the King that the Prime Minister was put to death, the parliament was dissolved with a battery of artillery, and government of the people, by the people, for the people perished from Ghargaroo. |
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Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Only a few short weeks ago, we shared the glory of man's first sight of the world as God sees it, as a single sphere reflecting light in the darkness. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We will carry on the tradition of a good and worthy people who have brought light where there was darkness, warmth where there was cold, medicine where there was disease, food where there was hunger, and peace where there was only bloodshed. |
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| "Darkness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.39% of the time. "Darkness" is used about 3,263 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.39% | 3,243 | 2,927 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.46% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (common) | 0.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,263 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "darkness". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ahihud | N/A | Biblical | Of darkness |
| Enon | N/A | Biblical | Mass of darkness |
| Ophel | N/A | Biblical | Darkness |
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Expressions using "darkness": autumn darkness ♦ children of darkness ♦ darkness of meaning ♦ darkness of night ♦ impenetrable darkness ♦ in darkness ♦ pitch darkness ♦ prince of darkness ♦ the powers of darkness ♦ To walk in darkness ♦ total darkness ♦ under cover of darkness ♦ yellowing in darkness. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "darkness": half-darkness, near-darkness. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "darkness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | terrinë (darkening), terr (dark, mirk, murk, obscurity, opaque), natë (dark, night, nighttime), errësirë (background, blackness, eclipse, fogginess, gloom, mirk, mist, murk, night, nigrescence, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, opaque, staining), errësi (dark). (various references) | |
Arabic | مكان مظلم (dark, gloom), قتوم, قتام, غيهب (gloominess), غموض (ambiguity, equivocation, fuzziness, haziness, mystery, mystification, nebulizer, obscurity, opacity, secret, vagueness, weirdness), سرية (company, hugger mugger, mystery, privacy, secrecy, stealthiness, wrap), عمى (blind, blindness, camouflage, mystify, riddle), عتمة (dark, dimness, shade, sombreness), خفاء (mystery), جهل (blindness, ignorance, innocence, pass, stupidity, unacquaintance, unawareness), الظلام, ظلمة (gloominess, mirk, murk, night, opacity, shadow, sombreness, umbra), دكنة (dinginess). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тъмнина (blackness, dark, obscurity, shades, shadows, the opaque), мрак (dark, gloom, mirk, murk, night, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness, shades, shadows, the opaque). (various references) | |
Chinese | 黑暗 (dark, darkly). (various references) | |
Czech | tma (dark, gloom, night), temnota (blackness, obscurity). (various references) | |
Danish | mørke (murk). (various references) | |
Dutch | duisternis (murk), duister (dark, dim, indistinct, murk), donker (bleak, dark, dim, dismal, dreary, murk, obscure). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tenebro, mallumo (murk). (various references) | |
Faeroese | myrkur (murk), kølmyrkur. (various references) | |
Finnish | tummuus, pimeys (dark, obscurity). (various references) | |
French | ténèbres, obscurité (dark). (various references) | |
German | Finsternis (eclipse, obscureness, obscurity), dunkelheit (blackness, dark, dimness, fog, gloom, gloominess, murk, obscureness, obscurity, swarthiness). (various references) | |
Greek | σκότοσ (dark, dinginess, gloom, mirk, murk, obscurity), σκοτεινότησ (obscurity, shadiness), σκοτεινότητα (obscurity, shadiness), σκοτάδι (dark, night time, obscurity). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | errësirë (murk). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חושך (dark, murk, obscurity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sötétség (blackness, dark, depths, dusk, gloom, mirk, murk, murkiness, obscurity, sombreness, the dark), homály (blur, dimness, dimwit, gloom, gloominess, mirk, mist, murk, obscureness, obscurity, shade, shades, shadow, twilight). (various references) | |
Icelandic | myrkur (murk). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kekelaman (obscurity), kegelapan (blackness, murk), gelapan. (various references) | |
Italian | oscurità (background, blackness, dark, dimness, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murk, murkiness, night, obscureness, obscurity, opacity, shade, somberness, sombreness), tenebre (dark, gloom, murk, murkiness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 闇黒 , 闇 (black-marketeering, dark, illegal, shady, the dark), 無明 (ignorance), 晦冥 , 暗闇 (the dark), 暗黒 , 暗がり , 暗やみ (the dark). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くらがり, くらやみ (the dark), かいめい (civilization, elucidation, enlightenment, explication, name change, names of notes of musical scale, solfa), あんこく, むみょう (ignorance), やみ (black-marketeering, dark, illegal, shady, the dark). (various references) | |
Korean | 암흑. (various references) | |
Manx | dorrid, dorraghys (blackness, obscurity), dooid (blackness), burgeeaght (gloom, gloominess). (various references) | |
Norwegian | mørke. (various references) | |
Papiamen | skuridat (murk). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arknessday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | escuridão (cloudiness, dark, dead, dusk, gloom, mirk, mirkiness, murk, murkiness, night, obscurity, opacity, opaque, shade). (various references) | |
Romanian | tenebre, obscuritate (gloom, gloominess, haze, murk, obscurity), noapte (evening, night), negrealã (black, blacking, blackness, inkness, smutch), culoare închisã (dark, duskiness), caracter ascuns (caginess, secrecy), întuneric (blackness, dark, murk, night, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, shadow, twilight), întunecime (blackness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, murkiness), întunecare (darkening, dusk, gloominess, lower, sombreness). (various references) | |
Russian | темнота (blackness, mirk, murk, night, nigritude, obscurity, opaque, shadowiness). (various references) | |
Scottish | dubhar (shade), dorchadas (obscurity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tama (dark, gloominess), mrak (dark, mirk, murk, obscurity). (various references) | |
Spanish | tinieblas (dark, dissolution, dusk, duskiness, mirk, murk, obscurity, shades), oscuridad (abstruseness, blackness, dark, dimness, dinginess, dusk, gloom, gloominess, insignificance, insignificancy, mirk, mirkiness, murk, murkiness, obscurity, shadow, shadows). (various references) | |
Swahili | giza (murk). (various references) | |
Swedish | mörker (blackness, dark, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murk, nigritude, obscurity). (various references) | |
Tagalog | karimlán (murk). (various references) | |
Turkish | loşluk (dimness, gloominess, obscurity, somberness, sombreness), koyuluk (consistency, deep, deepness, intenseness, intension, intensity, saturation, somberness, sombreness, stiffness, thickness), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), kötülük (badness, blackness, devilry, disservice, enormity, evil, harm, iniquity, malfeasance, malice, malignity, misdeed, misdoing, perversity, spitefulness, vice, viciousness, villainy, wickedness), körlük (blindness, dullness), gizlilik (closeness, confidentiality, furtiveness, hugger mugger, huggermugger, obscurity, privacy, secrecy, stealth, stealthiness), esrarengizlik (eeriness, inscrutability, mystery, secrecy), cehalet (ignorance, illiteracy, night), bilinmezlik (obscurity), bilgisizlik (dark, ignorance, illiteracy, nescience, unawareness). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tьmlьk (obscurity), tьm (obscurity), kцrlьk (blindness, dimwit), garaсkylyk, garaсky (dark, unlit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смуглявість (duskiness), темрява (dark, gloom, mirk, murk, night, nigritude, obscure, obscureness, obscurity, opaque), темнота (dark, obscureness, obscurity), темний колір (dark), похмурість (dreariness, gloom, greyness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình trạng không rõ ràng, tình trạng không minh bạch sự dốt nát, sự nham hiểm (snakiness), sự ngu dốt (dark, ignorance, ignorantness), sự không hay biết gì sự bí mật, sự kín đáo sự đen tối, sự ám muội, màu đen sạm tình trạng mơ hồ, cảnh tối tăm màu sạm, bóng tối (adumbration, blackness, dark, duskiness, shadow). (various references) | |
Welsh | tywyllwch (dark), gwyll (gloom), caddug (fog, mist). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ganzer. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caliga, caligatio, caligine, caliginem, caliginis, caligo, creperum, crepusculo, diaboli, diabolo, diabolum, diabolus, diabuli, diabulus, obscurum, tenebrae, tenebrarum, tenebras, tenebris. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | ge-nip, heolstor, sceadu. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 2, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | W oi egkataleiponteV odouV euqeiaV tou poreuesqai en odoiV skotouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui relinquunt iter rectum et ambulant per vias tenebrosas |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thei that forsaken the riyt going, and wenten bi derke weies; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads; |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 2, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Nga nagabiya sa mga alagianan nga matul-id, Aron sa paglakat sa mga dalan sa kangitngit; |
| Chinese | 那 等 人 捨 棄 正 直 的 路 、 行 走 黑 暗 的 道 、 |
| Croatian | od onih koji ostavljaju staze poštenja te idu mraènim putovima; |
| Danish | som går fra de lige Stier for at vandre på Mørkets Veje. |
| Dutch | Van degenen, die de paden der oprechtheid verlaten, om te gaan in de wegen der duisternis; |
| Finnish | niistä, jotka ovat hyljänneet oikeat polut vaeltaaksensa pimeyden teitä; |
| French | De ceux qui abandonnent les sentiers de la droiture Afin de marcher dans des chemins ténébreux, |
| German | die da verlassen die rechte Bahn und gehen finstere Wege, |
| Hungarian | A kik elhagyják az igazságnak útát, hogy járjanak a setétségnek útain. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka tak mau mengikuti cara hidup yang baik; mereka mengambil jalan yang gelap dan penuh dosa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dari pada orang yang meninggalkan jalan betul, hendak menurut jalan-jalan yang gelap, |
| Italian | da coloro che abbandonano i retti sentieri per camminare nelle vie delle tenebre, |
| Korean | 이 무 리 는 정 직 한 길 을 떠 나 어 두 운 길 로 행 하 며 |
| Maori | I te hunga e whakarere nei i nga ara o te tika, e haere ana i nga ara o te pouri; |
| Norwegian | fra dem som forlater rettvishets stier for å vandre på mørkets veier, |
| Portuguese | dos que deixam as veredas da retidão, para andarem pelos caminhos das trevas; |
| Rumanian | de ceice pqrqsesc cqrqrile adevqrate, ca sq umble pe drumuri kntunecoase; |
| Russian | ПФ ФЕИ, ЛПФПТЩЕ ПУФБЧМСАФ УФЕЪЙ РТСНЩЕ, ЮФПВЩ ИПДЙФШ РХФСНЙ ФШНЩ; |
| Spanish | que abandonan las sendas derechas para andar en caminos tenebrosos, |
| Swedish | från dem som hava övergivit det rättas stigar. för att färdas på mörkrets vägar, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "darkness": darknesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "darkness": semidarkness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "darkness": semidarknesses. (additional references) | |
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"Darkness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arness, darknes, darknesses, darknest, darndest, darnes, darnis, derknesse, drankes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "darkness" (pronounced dÄ"rknus) |
| 6 | -Ä" r k n u s | starkness. |
| 4 | -k n u s | blackness, bleakness, frankness, homesickness, likeness, quickness, sickness, slackness, thickness, uniqueness, weakness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blandness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: darkens, sanders. | |
-2 letters: askers, danker, darken, denars, drakes, eskars, kneads, narked, ranked, redans, sakers, sander, sarsen, sedans, skeans, snaked, snakes, snared, snares, snarks, sneaks. | |
-3 letters: arses, asked, asker, assed, dares, darks, darns, deans, dears, denar, desks, drake, drank, dreks, dress, earns, eskar, kanes, karns, kerns, knars, knead, naked, nards, nares, narks, nears, nerds. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-k-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: redshanks. | |
+2 letters: darknesses, markedness, snakebirds, spikenards. | |
+3 letters: awkwardness, dressmaking. | |
