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Pitch blackness   /pɪtʃ blˈæknəs/   Listen
Pitch blackness

noun
1.
Total absence of light.  Synonyms: black, blackness, lightlessness, total darkness.  "In the black of night"






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"Pitch blackness" Quotes from Famous Books



... up in the darkness, to bale. Our work performed, we three passengers— Santa and Farrell and I—would creep under the tarpauling anew, out of the drumming rain, and coil there to sleep. . . . Ay, and once in the pitch blackness under, she, mistaking, reached two arms around my neck and with a long sigh, dead-beat, sank asleep. That was all. . . . Farrell lay as he had tumbled, like a log across my ankles. . . . I held her, crooked ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... cut; the other strands were frayed out. The gold-stealer fell upon his knees and tried to call, but a mere gasp was the only sound that escaped his lips. He remained for a minute or two gazing helplessly into the pitch blackness of the shaft; then, recovering somewhat with a great effort, he rose to his feet, untied the remainder of the rope from the skid and dropped it into the shaft, and turning his back on the mine fled away through the paddocks towards Waddy. As ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson



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