Darkly

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Darkly \Dark"ly\, adv.
     1. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely;
        dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
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              What fame to future times conveys but darkly down.


                                                    --Dryden.
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              so softly dark and darkly pure.       --Byron.
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     2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
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              Looking darkly at the clerguman.      --Hawthorne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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