tenebrific
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tenebrific
Example Sentences
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Obviously, Lovecraft here was exploring those tenebrific estuaries of the occult that had barely been mapped by Jung, Fraser and Arthur Machen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Corey's grueling tales dwell lightly on melancholia and misfortune; the illustrations are precise, deadpan and tenebrific.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now begins "the tenebrific passage of the tale."
From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell
It lightens, it brightens The tenebrific scene, To meet with, and greet with My Davie, or my Jean!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
They shine like suns, these two, amid multitudes of watery comets and tenebrific constellations, too sorrowful without such admixture on occasion!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas
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