dark age

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dark age^¹

noun dark ages · darke age

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.
A time period about which there is very little information. But if by a dark age you mean an age concerning which we are altogether in the dark ; and as , in applying this to our own , the Subject and Object , we and the age become identical and commutable terms ; I bid adieu to all reasoning by implication, to all legerdemain of inferential logic, and at on

Dark Age^²

proper noun the Dark Age

alternative Alternative form of Dark Ages

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@misc{dark_age_2026,
  title = {dark age},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dark%20age},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}