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Grammar : Adj |
Spell : ten-uh-bruh s |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛn ə brəs |
Definition of tenebrous
Origin :- "full of darkness," early 15c., from Old French tenebreus (11c.), from Latin tenebrosus, from tenebrae "darkness" (see temerity).
- adj dark, ominous
- Your voice is tenebrous, as if An angel mocked a blackbird's pipe.
- Extract from : « Silverpoints » by John Gray
- But her imagination was roving in the dim oil-lit streets of the tenebrous city, striving for the clairvoyance of love.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- Never had she looked to Ray so like an eagle, so keen, so fierce, so fit for braving either sun or tenebrous cavern.
- Extract from : « The Precipice » by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
- At what moment will the fierce impurities borne from its somber and tenebrous past be hurled up in you?
- Extract from : « Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre » by Voltairine de Cleyre
- Winged things that were not bats swooped and fluttered in the tenebrous air, whispering sibilantly—whispering in human voices.
- Extract from : « The Secret of Kralitz » by Henry Kuttner
- The room was well illuminated with gas, whatever might be going on in the streets; to no tenebrous repast were we invited.
- Extract from : « Glories of Spain » by Charles W. Wood
- I can't recall any other detail, but the whole atmosphere was tenebrous and sinister.
- Extract from : « The Capgras Shift » by Sam Vaknin
- We find the cloudy or tenebrous sky of night represented in the Ṛigvedas and in the Avesta as aman, or mountain of stone.
- Extract from : « Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2) » by Angelo de Gubernatis
- We have said that the tenebrous darkness of last night had not prepared us for the charms of to-day.
- Extract from : « Glories of Spain » by Charles W. Wood
- This spot, however small, is enough to betray his tenebrous nature.
- Extract from : « Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2) » by Angelo de Gubernatis
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