Meanings
- figurativelyuncountablemental 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.
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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.
1855, William Maginn, Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn, Volume 2, The Odoherty papers
Origin
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