"cimmerianism" meaning in English

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          "text": "1824, Blackwood's magazine, Volume 16, Letters of Timothy Tickler, Esp. No. XVIII.\nIt is sufficient to have given all who understand anything about such matters, a glimpse of the awful cimmerianism of the philologer and classical critic of the Edinburgh Review."
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          "text": "I earnestly recommend to those who are sensible of their own culpable deficiencies in these branches of information, or rather indeed I should say, of common education, to remain no longer in their present Cimmerianism.",
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        "mental darkness; ignorance."
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        "(figuratively) mental darkness; ignorance."
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