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- adjective Resembling
night or some aspect of it;dark ,tenebrous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gradually I saw the nightlike shadows flee away, and with the dawn came signs of heavy weather.
Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926
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Then she lowered her eyelids again, shutting all mysteriousness out of the situation except for the sobering memory of that glance, nightlike in the sunshine, expressively still in the brutal unrest of the street.
Chance Joseph Conrad 1890
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Then she lowered her eyelids again, shutting all mysteriousness out of the situation except for the sobering memory of that glance, nightlike in the sunshine, expressively still in the brutal unrest of the street.
Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890
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In thoughts sublime that pierce the nightlike stars,
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