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eing black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. They're darker now than blackness. Donne.

Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

cripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.

The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2.

To render infamous; to bring into disrepute. My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name. Dryden.

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.

Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.

Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

The state or quality of being inky; blackness.

Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black. "Inky blots." Shak. "Its inky blackness." Boyle.

etc. If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. F. W. Robertson.

Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness.

The state of being jetty; blackness. Pennant.

Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness. Johnson.

Blackness; the state of being black. Lamb.

Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.

That of which the essence is the absence of something. Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives. Bacon.