Meaning of nightgloom | Babel Free

Definitions

Darkness of the night; night gloom.

literary, rare, uncountable

Examples

“[…] how we longed to be the hero, how the burning ardour for adventure arose within us, and we sought wistfully with eager eyes to find somewhere in the world around the footprints of temerity, listening breathlessly even in the nightgloom for the sound of their creation, doubting not ‘the deeds that we would do or die.’”

“No. 6.–Chorus of Guards and People. Come with torches brightly flashing, Rush along with billets clashing, Through the nightgloom, lead and follow, In and out each rocky hollow, Owls and ravens, Howl with us, and scare the cravens!”

“Perry turned and contemplatively watched the lawman’s thick torso moving up through the increasing nightgloom, ‘What the hell do you suppose it is that he knows about us, for a fact?’”

“Because I've been hacking at wolves in forests for far more than a thousand years longer than ye have—and I know I can't, when nightgloom gets this deep.’”

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