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Darkly
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adverb (adv.)
1. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron.
2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.