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tenebrious, a.|tɪˈnɛbrɪəs|
[app. altered form of tenebrous: not on L. analogies.]
Of or pertaining to darkness; of dark nature; = tenebrous.
1594Selimus A iv b, The caue tenebrious, and damned spirits holt. 1624Heywood Gunaik. ix. 459 A place so palpably tenebrious, into which the eyes of Heauen cannot pierce and see me. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 963 Were Moon, and Stars, for Villains only made? To guide, yet screen them, with tenebrious Light? 1820Foster Ess. Evils Pop. Ignorance 216 All this therefore passes before him with a tenebrious glimmer, and is gone. 1907Speaker 19 Jan. 471/1 Thoughts tenebrious and impassioned.
Hence teˈnebriously adv., darkly.
1861J. Thomson Ladies of Death xv, Thy lidless eyes tenebriously bright. |