DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL


Meaning of DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL in English

■ noun a period of spiritual desolation suffered by a mystic in which all sense of consolation is removed.

Origin

C19: used to translate Sp. Noche oscura , the title of a poem by the Spanish mystic St John of the Cross.

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