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
It lightens, it brightens The tenebrific scene, To meet with, and greet with My Davie or my Jean!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
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
While old Traun is kept luminous as mid-day; the circumambient atmosphere of Pandours is tenebrific to Friedrich, keeps him in perpetual midnight.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas
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