单词 | pitch darkness |
释义 | > as lemmaspitch darkness pitch darkness n. intense darkness. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > intense darkness shadow of deathc1050 pitchiness1598 shade of deatha1616 pitch darkness1769 1769 J. McFarlane Multum in Parvo 48 This golden lamp of light, In black pitch darkness quite involv'd, Brings on eternal night. 1874 A. J. C. Hare Jrnl. 4 Oct. in Story of my Life (1900) IV. xvii. 241 We..set off again..with lanthorns in pitch darkness. 1987 V. Mollenkott Godding iv. 68 The Holy of Holies was set off by a veil that must have plunged the place into pitch darkness. < as lemmas |
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