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Cimmerian vs Ebon - What's the difference?

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Cimmerian is a related term of ebon.


As nouns the difference between cimmerian and ebon

is that cimmerian is (greek mythology) any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness while ebon is (now poetic) ebony; an ebony tree.

As adjectives the difference between cimmerian and ebon

is that cimmerian is pertaining to the ancient cimmerians while ebon is (poetic) made of ebony.

As a proper noun cimmerian

is the language of the cimmerians, possibly belonging to the iranian branch.

cimmerian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • perpetually dark or gloomy
  • * 1631 : , L'Allegro
    • There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
  • * 1740 :
    • As ragged as thy locks,
    In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
  • * 1820 :
    • ...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours.
  • (figuratively) mentally dark; ignorant
  • * 1770 :
    • The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne.

    Derived terms

    * cimmerianism * cimmerianize

    ebon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hebene (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (poetic) Made of ebony.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
  • *:“A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”
  • * 1745 , (Edward Young), Night-Thoughts , I:
    • Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.
  • (poetic) Black in colour.

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