Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which darkens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, darkens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an object that
darkens .
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Examples
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As Cæcius, the "darkener," became ultimately changed into Cacus, the "evil one," so the name of Vritra, the "concealer," the most famous of the Panis, was gradually generalized until it came to mean "enemy," like the English word fiend, and began to be applied indiscriminately to any kind of evil spirit.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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Most of the time she applied her eyebrow darkener and lipstick higher or lower than where it belonged.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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He should have throttled Weissmann where he sat, corrugations of skinny throat and Adam's apple sliding under P-kler's palms, thick eyeglasses sliding off as the weak little eyes go blearing helplessly after their final darkener ....
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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The most innocent darkener of the brow is the expressed juice of the elderberry, or a burnt clove.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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The most innocent darkener of the brow is the expressed juice of the elderberry, or a burnt clove.
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We called these ash balls mä'dạkạpa isĕ'pĕ, or mä'dạkạpa darkener.
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They are stolen every night by Vritra the concealer, and Cæcius the darkener, and Indra is obliged to spend hours in looking for them, sending Sarama, the inconstant twilight, to negotiate for their recovery.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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And thus much for the first great darkener of man's mind, sensuality; and that, in both the branches of it, lust and intemperance.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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Ever Glow was written in gold and capital letters followed by the words "Daily Moisturizer with gentle skin darkener".
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Ever Glow Daily Moisturizer claimed to maintain summer color with gentle skin darkener.
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