cimmerianismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cimmerianism (uncountable)

1. (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.