<entry id="2299119" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2861090</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>頻闇</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>しきやみ</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<misc>&arch;</misc>
<gloss>total darkness</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2024-04-24 22:32:32" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_detl>This word is used in a sentence in the well-known 逆転裁判 video game series. Without an entry in jmdict, the reader may think it's a made-up word...

https://i.imgur.com/uxTU2DH.jpeg</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E9%A0%BB%E9%97%87</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-04-24 23:16:51" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>stephen</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Noun gloss</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Dialogue from the linked image:
&gt;&gt; 魑魅魍魎の跳梁跋扈する頻闇の帷が帝都を包む宵、決闘の緞帳が開く！

Out of the kokugos, I only see this in koj. It quotes waka poetry from the 7th century.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬─────╮
│ 頻闇　 │ 199 │
│ 頻闇の │  24 │
╰─ーーー─┴─────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,3 +12,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;pitch-dark&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;pitch-black&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;completely dark​&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;arch;&lt;/misc&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;total darkness&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-04-25 01:09:02" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>