Dictionary

endarken en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɛnˈdɑːkən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɪnˈdɑːkən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/ (General-American)

Etymology

From en- + darken (see en- (“intensifying prefix”)), modelled on enlighten.

Meanings

1. (literary, rare, transitive) To render dark or darker.
   • Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen. 1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury:
   • […] moral education cannot be […] purely enlightened and enlightening […] it cannot be simply a matter of teaching [people] to calculate the long term profit and the loss, while leaving […] desires to develop independently. It must involve an endarkened and endarkening component, by which [people] are taught precisely to cease [their] calculations, to regard certain paths as forbidden, as places where neither profit nor loss has authority.
2. (literary, transitive) To becloud, obscure, to obfuscate; to confound.

Forms

Antonyms

enlighten (antonym(s) of “render dark”)

Deriveds

endarkenment

Translations (5)

hu elsötétít (to render dark or darker) · sv förmörka (to render dark or darker) · hu elhomályosít (to obscure, to obfuscate; to confound) · nl verduisteren (to render dark or darker) · hu besötétít (to render dark or darker)