endarken
verbUS /ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/ · UK /ɪnˈdɑːkən/
Etymology From en- + darken (see en- (“intensifying prefix”)), modelled on enlighten.
- Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen.1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury:
- […] 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.
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Literary To becloud, obscure, to obfuscate; to confound.
- Antonyms
- enlighten
- Derived terms
- endarkenment