endarken

== English == === Etymology === From en- +‎ darken (see en- (“intensifying prefix”)), modelled on enlighten. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdɑːkən/, /ɛnˈdɑːkən/ === Verb === endarken (third-person singular simple present endarkens, present participle endarkening, simple past and past participle endarkened) (transitive, rare, chiefly literary) To render dark or darker. (Can we date this quote by Roger Scruton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) […] moral education cannot be […] purely enlightened and enlightening […] it cannot be simply a matter of teaching [people] to calculate the long term profit and the loss, while leaving […] desires to develop independently. It must involve an endarkened and endarkening component, by which [people] are taught precisely to cease [their] calculations, to regard certain paths as forbidden, as places where neither profit nor loss has authority. (transitive, chiefly literary) To becloud, obscure, to obfuscate; to confound. ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “render dark”): enlighten ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === enranked, rankened