Meaning of cimmerianism | Babel Free

Definitions

mental darkness; ignorance.

figuratively, uncountable

Examples

“1824, Blackwood's magazine, Volume 16, Letters of Timothy Tickler, Esp. No. XVIII. It is sufficient to have given all who understand anything about such matters, a glimpse of the awful cimmerianism of the philologer and classical critic of the Edinburgh Review.”

“I earnestly recommend to those who are sensible of their own culpable deficiencies in these branches of information, or rather indeed I should say, of common education, to remain no longer in their present Cimmerianism.”

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