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dark night of the soul

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dark night of the soul

▶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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