dark world

English

Noun

dark world (plural dark worlds)

  1. The realm beyond normal human perception; the world of the supernatural, occult or unknown.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 8:
      He has, of course, the right to speak authoritatively, and he laughs at my theory that there was a crack in Pansay's head and a little bit of the Dark World came through and pressed him to death.
  2. The realm lacking the light of enlightenment, scripture, the truth, etc.
    • 1871, Edward Harold, The World and the Man, Ely: T.A. Hills and Son, page 6:
      Israel was the candlestick, the Scriptures were the light, and the dark world without was to be made ready for receiving the light.
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