tenebrous
adjective
dark; gloomy; obscure.
tenebrious
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a variation of
tenebrous.
Example Sentences
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I found that in the tenebrious halo of the Scottish capital there existed, independently of the ignorance of the poor colliers, three distinct elements.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
On its three lower tables the mountain is green and bare; then abruptly rises a forest of redwoods, tall, rigid, tenebrious.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
No life-problem need remain unsolved with their bright spears to drive the tenebrious mists before them.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
All this therefore passes before him with a tenebrious glimmer; like lightning faintly penetrating to a man behind a thick black curtain.
From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster
Some of Sir William Herschel's observations appear to indicate an association between these tenebrious spots and neighboring star clouds and nebulæ.
From Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss
