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   Dark night of the soul

   noun

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

   Word Origin mid 19th century: used to translate Spanish Noche oscura, the title of a poem by the mystic St John of the Cross.

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