dark age
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.86 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A time period characterized by ignorance, decline, stagnation, and/or conflict and turmoil.
noun
A time period about which there is very little information.
name
Alternative form of Dark Ages.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "That, as then conceived of, was the Christ for that dark age, for men too carnal-minded to conceive of Him or have Him revealed to them in His higher, true character."
- "The dark age that I have alluded to is one that affected all Europe, and to-day the relics of this barbarous past rule all mankind."
- "The eighth century was the dark age in Greece ; after that , though learning revives, more of an effort is required to keep up the forms of ancient Greek scholarship."
- "Newton's comparison of himself to a child on the seashore might be taken as evidence that the classical age of modern physics was a dark age and knew it."
- "How would the "dark age" of plutocratic dominance come to an end if reformers remained withing the walls of the monasteries."