Belight vs Darkness - What's the difference?
belight | darkness |
(transitive, rare, dialectal) To light up; illuminate.
(intransitive, rare, dialectal) To become lit up; shine up; dawn.
(lb) The state of being dark; lack of light.
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*1912 , (Willa Cather),
*:Over everything was darkness and thick silence, and the smell of dust and sunflowers.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness , but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(lb) Gloom.
(lb) The product of being dark.
(lb) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
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(lb) Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering.