cimmerianism
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cimmerianism (uncountable)
- (figuratively) mental darkness; ignorance.
- 1824, Blackwood's magazine, Volume 16, Letters of Timothy Tickler, Esp. No. XVIII.
- It is sufficient to have given all who understand anything about such matters, a glimpse of the awful cimmerianism of the philologer and classical critic of the Edinburgh Review.
- 1855, William Maginn, Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn, Volume 2, The Odoherty papers:
- I earnestly recommend to those who are sensible of their own culpable deficiencies in these branches of information, or rather indeed I should say, of common education, to remain no longer in their present Cimmerianism.
- 1824, Blackwood's magazine, Volume 16, Letters of Timothy Tickler, Esp. No. XVIII.