cimmerian

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cimmerian - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cimmerian \Cim*me"ri*an\, a. [L. Cimmerius.] [Written also
     Kimmerian.]
     1. Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to
        have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and
        perpetual darkness.
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     2. Without any light; intensely dark.
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              In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.  --Milton.
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cimmerian - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Cimmerian
      adj 1: intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness;
             "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be
             felt"-Norman Douglas