D'ARKNESS, n.
1. Absence of light.
And darkness was on the face of the deep. Genesis 1
2. Obscurity want of clearness or perspicuity that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood as the darkness of counsels.
3. A state of being intellectually clouded ignorance.
Men loved darkness rather than light. John 3
4. A private place secrecy privacy.
What I tell in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matthew 10
5. Infernal gloom hell as utter darkness. Matthew 22
6. Great trouble and distress calamities perplexities.
A day of clouds and thick darkness. Joel 2 Is. viii.
7. Empire of Satan.
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness. Colossians 1
8. Opakeness.
Land of darkness, the grave. Job 10