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  1. Dark Night (disambiguation), Dark Night (song), Dark Night, Dark night, The Dark Night (film), The Dark Night: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, night.
noun:  Ellipsis of dark night of the soul.. [(Catholicism) a period of time in which a holy person (someone believed to be potentially on their way to sainthood) experiences a seeming withdrawal of God's previously-felt presence in their lives, and undergoes stark spiritual attacks. This period of time is seen (by Catholics) to be a period in which God is calling the holy person to rid themselves of any remaining vestiges of self-pride and vanity that they may have.]

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