"bedarken" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter 6: Hero-Worship”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem):",
          "text": "#*: for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous",
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          "ref": "1962, Joseph Gies, Adventure Underground: Tunnels, page 260:",
          "text": "Even if there had been a glimmer of light, the dust would have robbed us of it; it was dense enough to bedarken an out-of-doors spot.",
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        "To make dim, or to darken, or obscure."
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          "text": "#*: for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous",
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