Endarken
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Endarken is a verb meaning (transitive, rare, chiefly literary) To render dark or darker.
Meaning
(transitive, rare, chiefly literary) To render dark or darker.
More Meanings
- (transitive, chiefly literary) To becloud, obscure, to obfuscate; to confound.
Example Sentences
Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen.
[…] moral education cannot be […] purely enlightened and enlightening […] it cannot be simply a matter of teaching [people] to calculate the long term profit and the loss, while leaving […] desires to develop independently. It must involve an endarkened and endarkening component, by which [people] are taught precisely to cease [their] calculations, to regard certain paths as forbidden, as places where neither profit nor loss has authority.
Word Forms
- endarkens
- endarkening
- endarkened
Antonyms for endarken
Common opposites include enlighten.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include darken, bedark, overdarken, bedarken, undarken, dark.
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