tenebriousadj.
/tɪˈnɛbrɪəs/ Of or pertaining to darkness; of dark nature; = tenebrous adj.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective]
blinda1000
darkOE
lightlessOE
murkOE
therka1325
murkfula1400
unsheena1400
tenebrousc1420
tenebrose1490
tenebrate1492
sable?a1513
unlightsome1574
tenebrious1594
blindfold1601
Stygian1602
dayless1657
unenlightened1662
darklinga1718
rayless1727
tenebrific1786
twinkless1830
transdiurnal1848
glimmerless1889
gleamless1891
unlightened1896
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus A iv b The caue tenebrious, and damned spirits holt.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ix. 459 A place so palpably tenebrious, into which the eyes of Heauen cannot pierce and see me.
1745 E. Young Consolation 49 Were Moon, and Stars, for Villains only made? To guide, yet screen them, with tenebrious Light?
1820 J. Foster Ess. Evils Pop. Ignorance 216 All this therefore passes before him with a tenebrious glimmer, and is gone.
1907 Speaker 19 Jan. 471/1 Thoughts tenebrious and impassioned.
Derivatives
teˈnebriously adv. darkly.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adverb]
tenebriously1861
1861 J. Thomson Ladies of Death xv Thy lidless eyes tenebriously bright.
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adj.1594