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tenebrous, a. (n.)|ˈtɛnɪbrəs|
[a. OF. tenebrus (11th c.), mod.F. ténébreux, Pr. tenebros, Sp., It. tenebroso, ad. L. tenebrōs-us tenebrose.]
1. Full of darkness, dark.
c1420? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1169 Tyll Cerberus Had hem beshut withyn hys gates tenebrus. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xxxii. 121 A tenebrouse & derke dongeon. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 204 The aduentures of the Tenebrous, or Darke Tower. 1608R. Johnson Seven Champions ii. T iv, Therewith drewe on the darke and tenebrous night. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Vertigo, The other they call Scotomia, or Tenebrous Vertigo, when the Eyes are darkned and, as it were, cover'd with a Cloud. 1847Longfellow Ev. ii. ii. 29 Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch.
b. fig. Obscure, gloomy.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 220 To..run astray..raking out of the dust-heape or charnell house of tenebrous eld, the rottenest relique of the monuments. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xvii. 137 Heraclitus, the grand Scotist, and tenebrous darksome Philosopher. 1823New Monthly Mag. VIII. 13 The most tenebrous holes and corners of their author's obscurity. 1849Blackw. Mag. LXV. 307 Even in that tenebrous philosophy which he has imported..he is very much at fault.
†2. as n. Darkness. Obs. rare—1.
c1450Lovelich Grail lvi. 418 At ȝoure Castel there is Swich tenebrowse, that No man there Other May se.
Hence ˈtenebrousness (rare—0), darkness.
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