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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| dark (dɑːk) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | having little or no light: a dark street |
| 2. | light Compare medium (of a colour) reflecting or transmitting little light: dark brown |
| 3. | a. (of complexion, hair colour, etc) not fair or blond; swarthy; brunette |
| b. (in combination): dark-eyed | |
| 4. | gloomy or dismal |
| 5. | sinister; evil: a dark purpose |
| 6. | sullen or angry: a dark scowl |
| 7. | ignorant or unenlightened: a dark period in our history |
| 8. | secret or mysterious: keep it dark |
| 9. | phonetics Compare light denoting an (l) pronounced with a velar articulation giving back vowel resonance. In English, l is usually dark when final or preconsonantal |
| 10. | informal stock exchange go dark (of a company) to remove itself from the register of major exchanges while continuing to trade |
| —n | |
| 11. | absence of light; darkness |
| 12. | night or nightfall |
| 13. | a dark place, patch, or shadow |
| 14. | a state of ignorance (esp in the phrase in the dark) |
| —vb | |
| 15. | an archaic word for darken |
| [Old English deorc; related to Old High German terchennen to hide] | |
| 'darkish | |
| —adj | |
| 'darkly | |
| —adv | |
| 'darkness | |
| —n | |
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Darkness definition
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).
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