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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