v. [f. BE- 1 + DARKEN.] trans. To involve in darkness. Also fig.

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1596.  Fitz-geffrey, Sir F. Drake (1881), 24. Boughes bedarkning all the daie.

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1834.  Sir H. Taylor, Artevelde, II. III. ii. Guilt bedarkens and confounds the mind of man.

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  Hence Bedarkened, Bedarkening ppl. a.

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1809.  Southey, Ess. (1832), II. 282. It is still the same bedarkened and bedarkening superstition.

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1833.  H. Coleridge, Poems, I. 54. Sweet snatches of delight That visit our bedarken’d day.

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1847.  Sir H. Taylor, Eve of Conq., 36. If thou cast reproachful looks On sports bedarkening custom erst allowed.

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