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Meaning of DARKLY

Pronunciation:  dârklee

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 Definition: 
  1. [adv]  without light; "the river was sliding darkly under the mist"
  2. [adv]  in a dark glowering menacing manner; "he stared darkly at her"
 
 Synonyms: in darkness
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Dark"ly\, adv.
1. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely;
   dimly; blindly; uncertainly.

         What fame to future times conveys but darkly down.
                                               --Dryden.

         so softly dark and darkly pure.       --Byron.

2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.

         Looking darkly at the clerguman.      --Hawthorne.

 

 

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