darke age

Noun

dark age (plural dark ages)

1. A time period characterized by ignorance, decline, stagnation, and/or conflict and turmoil.
   • It is not becoming in us to cast reproach upon those who lived in the daybreak of a dark age, for not seeing clearly all that we see in the more perfect day.1849, Jonathan Crane, A Historical Sketch of the Second Congregational Church in Attleborough, page 44
2. A time period about which there is very little information.
   • But if by a dark age you mean an age concerning which we are altogether in the dark ; and as , in applying this to our own , the Subject and Object , we and the age become identical and commutable terms ; I bid adieu to all reasoning by implication, to all legerdemain of inferential logic, and at...1884, The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Volume 4, page 441