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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Darkly

· Dark·ly · IPA /ˈdɑɹkli/
01 adv. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
  1. 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. 2.
    With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
    “Looking darkly at the clerguman.” — Hawthorne.