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English
Etymology
From mirk + -some.
Adjective
mirksome (comparative more mirksome, superlative most mirksome)
- (obsolete) Dark; gloomy; murky.
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 1, canto 5, verse 28:Then to her yron wagon she betakes, / And with her beares the fowle welfavourd witch: / Through mirksome aire her ready way she makes.
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