Tenebricose

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(rare) Full of darkness; gloomy, tenebrous..

Example Sentences

Tene′bricose. […] Dark; gloomy.

[…] but he has grown wiser since he has been in my library; and by reflecting very deeply on the degree in which the manner of his construction might influence the forms of his perception, has taken a very opaque and tenebricose view of how much of the spheroidical perception belongs to the object, which is the sphere, and how much to the subject, which is himself, in his quality of cylindrical mirror.

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.

The usual tenebricose ensigns of majesty which distinguish Pluto, are a key instead of a sceptre, and an ebony crown.

More luminous smiles—from a broad-cheeked face dark as the tenebricose pit.

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• more tenebricose
• most tenebricose

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