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Webster 1913 Edition
Mirksome
Mirk′some
,Adj.
Dark; gloomy; murky.
[Archaic]
Spenser.
– Mirk′some-ness
, Noun.
[Archaic]
Webster 1828 Edition
Mirksome
MIRK'SOME
,Adj.
Definition 2024
mirksome
mirksome
English
Adjective
mirksome (comparative more mirksome, superlative most mirksome)
- (archaic) Dark; gloomy; murky.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, v:
- And there, in silence deaf and mirksome shade, / His characters and circles vain he made.
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- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, v:
Related terms
- mirksomeness