"lucus a non lucendo" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, Book VIII:",
          "text": "This Sun, into which Jones was now conducted, was truly named, as lucus a non lucendo; for it was an apartment into which the sun had scarce ever looked.",
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