ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tenebricose

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Tenebricose is an adjective meaning (rare) Full of darkness; gloomy, tenebrous.

Meaning

(rare) Full of darkness; gloomy, tenebrous.

Example Sentences

Tene′bricose. […] Dark; gloomy.
More luminous smiles—from a broad-cheeked face dark as the tenebricose pit.
The usual tenebricose ensigns of majesty which distinguish Pluto, are a key instead of a sceptre, and an ebony crown.
Verse was the elder born—plain prose / Came limping on in after ages; / When mind became tenebricose, / And dulness reign’d on all its pages.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tenebrific, tenebrous, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebristic, tenebrescent.

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