dark age

Definitions

1. 1

   A time period characterized by ignorance, decline, stagnation, and/or conflict and…

   A time period characterized by ignorance, decline, stagnation, and/or conflict and turmoil.

   • It is not becoming in us to cast reproach upon those who lived in the daybreak of a dark age, for not seeing clearly all that we see in the more perfect day.
   • That, as then conceived of, was the Christ for that dark age, for men too carnal-minded to conceive of Him or have Him revealed to them in His higher, true character.
   • The dark age that I have alluded to is one that affected all Europe, and to-day the relics of this barbarous past rule all mankind.
2. 2

   A time period about which there is very little information.

   • By his summary treatment he suggests that, for him too, the period after the coming of the Dorians was a dark age, in the limited sense that he knew no more about it than anyone else.
3. 3

   Alternative form of Dark Ages.

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