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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ/, /ˈdɑː(ɹ)k(ə)lɪŋ/ (note: Etymology 3) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-darkling.wav
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ Etymology: From darkle + -ing. Etymology templates: {{af|en|darkle|-ing|id2=participial}} darkle + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} darkling (not comparable)
  1. (poetic) Dark; growing dark; darkening. Tags: not-comparable, poetic
    Sense id: en-darkling-en-adj-JcVJLNLV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English heteronyms, English terms suffixed with -ing (participial), Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 37 0 37 1 2 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 28 35 1 30 2 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing (participial): 24 32 2 30 3 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 28 34 1 33 1 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 35 1 31 1 2
  2. (figurative) Obscure; taking place unseen, as if in the dark. Tags: figuratively, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-darkling-en-adj-4zzAtI38 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English heteronyms, English terms suffixed with -ing (participial), Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 37 0 37 1 2 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 28 35 1 30 2 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing (participial): 24 32 2 30 3 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 28 34 1 33 1 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 35 1 31 1 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ/, /ˈdɑː(ɹ)k(ə)lɪŋ/ (note: Etymology 3) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-darkling.wav
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ Etymology: From Middle English derkelyng, equivalent to dark + -ling. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|derkelyng}} Middle English derkelyng, {{af|en|dark|-ling|id2=adverbial}} dark + -ling Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} darkling (not comparable)
  1. In the dark; in obscurity. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-darkling-en-adv-senvgjnz Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ling (adverbial)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ/, /ˈdɑː(ɹ)k(ə)lɪŋ/ (note: Etymology 3) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-darkling.wav Forms: darklings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ Etymology: From dark + -ling. Etymology templates: {{af|en|dark|-ling|id2=diminutive}} dark + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} darkling (plural darklings)
  1. (fantasy) A creature that lives in the dark. Categories (topical): Fantasy
    Sense id: en-darkling-en-noun-A7Rcx-32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English heteronyms, English terms suffixed with -ing (participial), English terms suffixed with -ling (diminutive), Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 37 0 37 1 2 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 28 35 1 30 2 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing (participial): 24 32 2 30 3 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 28 34 1 33 1 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 35 1 31 1 2 Topics: fantasy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ/, /ˈdɑː(ɹ)k(ə)lɪŋ/ (note: Etymology 3) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-darkling.wav Forms: darklings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ Etymology: From darkle + -ing. Etymology templates: {{af|en|darkle|-ing|id2=participial}} darkle + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun}} darkling (plural darklings)
  1. Darkness.
    Sense id: en-darkling-en-noun-B5YPGJ3B
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ/, /ˈdɑː(ɹ)k(ə)lɪŋ/ (note: Etymology 3) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-darkling.wav
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ Etymology: From darkle + -ing. Etymology templates: {{af|en|darkle|-ing|id2=participial}} darkle + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} darkling
  1. present participle and gerund of darkle Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: darkle
    Sense id: en-darkling-en-verb-Pjcvl6~C
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
          "text": "As the wakeful bird sings darkling.",
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          "ref": "1816, Lord Byron, Darkness:",
          "text": "I had a dream, which was not all a dream. / The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars / Did wander darkling in the eternal space, / Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth / Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;",
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          "ref": "1867, Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach::",
          "text": "And we are here as on a darkling plain\nSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,\nWhere ignorant armies clash by night",
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          "ref": "1876, Heinrich Heine, translated by Thomas Selby Egan, Atta Troll and Other Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 165:",
          "text": "The air is cool and it’s darkling, / And calmly flows the Rhine; / The mountain tops are sparkling / In sunset’s parting shrine.",
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          "ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 140:",
          "text": "To us and to an observer about Ripley it would have had precisely the same effect the Martians seemed in solitary possession of the darkling night, lit only as it was by the slender moon, the stars, the after-glow of the daylight[.]",
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        "(figurative) Obscure; taking place unseen, as if in the dark."
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