† unlightsomeadj.

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job lxxiiij. 379/2 They deserue that God should cast them as it were into an vnlightsome place.

1594 G. Chapman Σκìα Νυκτòς sig. Aiij^v When vnlightsome, vast, and indigest, The formelesse matter of this world did lye.

a1629 M. Day Doomes-day (1636) 269 Although it bee the least, and the blackest and most unlightsome of all the rest.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 355 Of Celestial Bodies first the Sun A mightie Spheare he fram'd, unlightsom first. View more context for this quotation

1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. 167 The place of Election is very unlightsom, as having but a few Lights.

1705 R. Blackmore Eliza vii. 197 Th' Apartment down to which you go, Is lonely, strait, unlightsom, damp, and low.

1792 J. Story On Creation 19 The moon he'd form'd, not an eliptic, but Globose unlightsome was.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 11/1 He sallied forth from his own unlightsome rooms.

1862 All Year Round 11 Oct. 116/1 Can it be wondered at, that, under the infliction of such torture, the moody brow becomes darker, the acrid temper more aggressive, the unlightsome spirits more gloomy?