IN DARKNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in darkness mean? 

• IN DARKNESS (adverb)
  The adverb IN DARKNESS has 1 sense:

1. without light

  Familiarity information: IN DARKNESS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN DARKNESS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without light

Synonyms:

darkly; in darkness

Context example:

the river was sliding darkly under the mist

 Context examples 

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For each winter the sun leaves the land in darkness, and the next year a new sun returns so that they may be warm again and look upon one another's faces.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left in darkness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wolf Larsen and the lantern disappeared, and we were left in darkness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In 1989, most of the northern hemisphere was in darkness and unseen by Voyager.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

The windows were all in darkness save one on the lower floor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the meantime it struck twelve, and the spirit disappeared, so that the youth stood in darkness.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Just then a heavy cloud passed across the face of the moon, so that we were again in darkness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet; it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The shadows of evening had fallen, and the corners of the long, low, wood-panelled room were draped in darkness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)