dark age

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A time period characterized by ignorance, decline, stagnation, and/or conflict and turmoil.
    — It is not becoming in us to cast reproach upon those who lived in the daybreak of a dark age, for not seeing clearly all that we see in the more perfect day.
  2. A time period about which there is very little information.
    — But if by a dark age you mean an age concerning which we are altogether in the dark ; and as , in applying this to our own , the Subject and Object , we and the age become identical and commutable terms ; I bid adieu to all reasoning by implication, to all legerdemain of inferential logic, and at once bring notorious facts to bear out my assertion.

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dark ages plural darke age alternative

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