Hypertext Webster Gateway: "darkly"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Darkly \Dark"ly\, adv.
1. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely;
dimly; blindly; uncertainly.

What fame to future times conveys but darkly down.
--Dryden.

so softly dark and darkly pure. --Byron.

2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.

Looking darkly at the clerguman. --Hawthorne.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

darkly
adv 1: without light; "the river was sliding darkly under the mist"
[syn: {in darkness}]
2: in a dark glowering menacing manner; "he stared darkly at
her"

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