dimness

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They are a relief after Mr. Carlyle's high-seasoned writing; and this again is a relief after their long-winded dimnesses.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

And in its deepest meaning of absolute dependence and happy confidence, faith abides through all the glories and the lustres of the heavens, as it burns amidst the dimnesses and the darknesses of earth.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander

They are to reflect a concentrated blaze from the gas-lights in the evening, to point out specks and dimnesses, to the eyes and fingers of the burnishers.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

But for Mr. Kipling there are no dimnesses anywhere, and if the ladies are indeed violently distinct they are not only strong notes in a universal loudness.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry

The stone, then, might have been engraved by that someone, or by the someone from whom he received it, and so on back into the dimnesses of time.

From Prince Zaleski by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)