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tenebrose, a.|ˈtɛnɪbrəʊs|
[ad. L. tenebrōsus dark, f. tenebræ darkness: see -ose.]
Dark.
1490Caxton Eneydos xv. 53 The sprynge of the daye..hadde putte awaye the nyghte tenebrose. 1801Lusignan IV. 215 The tenebrose gloom of the place. 1830W. Phillips Mt. Sinai ii. 274 At night's meridian tenebrose.
b. fig. Mentally or morally dark; gloomy; obscure in meaning.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 208 Those times were very tenebrose. 1825New Monthly Mag. XIII. 450 All this was wormwood in the teeth of the tenebrose Visigoth of the middle ages. 1839Blackw. Mag. XLV. 533 That most tenebrose of all poets, Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke. |