| 单词 | murkness of night |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmurkness of (the) night 1. Intense darkness; (sometimes) spec. darkness caused by fog, smoke, etc. Frequently in murkness of (the) night. Also figurative. Sc. National Dict. at Mirk adj. records the sense as still in use in Shetland and Angus in 1963. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] thesternessc888 thesterc897 murkOE theosterleykc1000 darkc1300 darkheadc1300 murknessa1325 therknessa1325 darknessc1350 tenebres1413 tenebrousa1450 obscurity1481 tenebrosity1490 obscureness1509 dern?a1513 sable?a1513 darksomeness1571 fuliginousness1576 darkishness1583 murksomeness1625 obscure1667 soot1789 tenebrity1789 nightness1839 raylessness1843 lightlessness1845 darkling1882 unlight1883 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > intense darkness > caused by smoke murknessa1325 murkinessa1425 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3104 Ðhikke ðherknesse cam on ðat lond, Ðat migte non egipcien Abuten him for mirknesse sen. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 15860 (MED) Nu er yee cummen to tak me Als in mercknes o night. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 5859 (MED) While þat she [sc. the moon] þere shal houe Bitwene vs and þe sunne aboue, Hir merknesse reueþ fro oure sight Miche of þe sunnes light. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 27 That ilke myrknes, of the quhilk the sternis was blekkit. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 12495 A myste & a merkenes myngit to-gedur. 1607 Let. 3 Mar. in J. R. N. Macphail Highland Papers (1920) III. 99 The said Allaster wes apprehendit, and Johnne, being very evill hurte, by mirknes of the nyght eschaiped. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 463 So thay pairt, the ane army fra the vther, throw mirkness of nicht. 1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark 340 The mirkness of the neet. 1822 J. Hogg Poet. Wks. II. 133 Poor Connel was blinded, his lugs how they sung! Then mirkness set over his e'en. 1849 Reverberations i. 16 Thro' the mist and thro' the murkness Travels the great human soul. 1889 J. H. Skrine Mem. E. Thring 158 Four legs and a tail were heaved into the mirkness. 1908 C. M. Doughty Adam Cast Forth 15 His Sun have I not seen, since we twain driven Were from the Eden: covers Harisuth Thick murkness. < as lemmas |
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