Meaning of unlight | Babel Free

Definitions

The absence of light; darkness.

literary, poetic

Examples

“Those of the Unlight is probably Marduk's most traditional black metal recording, and one of my personal favorites.”

“"The door will only open when you strike it under the unlight of a moon at full dark. And the moon is many days from full dark now." Corydon gasped.”

“The unlight of Ungoliant Tolkien, always mindful of his language and especially his metaphors for light, was careful not to call the cloak that Ungoliant wove to hide Melkor and herself during their attack [on] the Two Trees a darkness.”

““They move and shake, from the unlight! The unlight which blackensss and ssscarsss!” “These men, are they a threat to us? To our plans for these lands?” “They are a threat to the way of thingsss! They count among them powerful magii and […]””

“[…] solidarity to the beings of the unlight, but apart from that, they avoid them. They do this because they also respect the will of the dark beings to stay far away from the light. Light beings don't see the unlight as an enemy […]”

“Luthan chokes again, coughing up more blood, and for the first time Oriana sees the unlight. She is not sure how else to describe it. An absence of light, a greyness, hovering over the wound like a cloud. It needs mending.”

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