1843, , , book 4, chapter VII, Tha Gifted:Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere, — if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee.
1905, , Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings, The Expository times: Volume 16:There will be no folly, nor laughter, nor bedimming of truth ...
1818, , , volume 3, chapter 7:Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.