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dark ages

Word definitions for dark ages in dictionaries

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Dark Ages may refer to:

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1739, any benighted time in history, period of ignorance; specific focus on the centuries from the fall of Rome to the revival of secular literature is from 1830s.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of Dark Ages English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dark \Dark\ (d[aum]rk), a. [OE. dark, derk, deork, AS. dearc, deorc; cf. Gael. & Ir. dorch, dorcha, dark, black, dusky.] Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep ...

Usage examples of dark ages.

The Dark Ages were rightly named, a shadowy time for the world, when the Black Riders rode unhindered over all our land.

Hack in Ihc heller pail ol Ihc Dark Ages, we used lo have a chin ol Squires whose sole purpose was lo lake care ol our carnal needs.

Back in the better part of the Dark Ages, we used to have a clan of Squires whose sole purpose was to take care of our carnal needs.

It boggled her mind that people could walk through time and that she could really be in the Dark Ages.

As the dark ages gave way to lighter ones, so, too, did the Keltar seem to wish to lay down the burden of their past.

Christian Europe, compared to the brilliant culture of the Moslems, was still in the Dark Ages.

Religious fanatics were exiled to the First Dark Ages, where they could not disturb the tranquil materialism of the present century.

Even your brother agrees I'm right, and you know he's totally living in the Dark Ages when it comes to women.

He had been born in the Dark Ages, the late 1940s, and nobody he knew, not even his parents in the country, ever seemed to talk about those years.

In the dark ages every calamity was attribted by the priests to sin.