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ten⋅e⋅brous
[ten-uh-bruh
s] 
–adjective
| dark; gloomy; obscure. |
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| ten·e·brous (těn'ə-brəs) adj. Dark and gloomy. [Middle English, from Old French tenebreus, from Latin tenebrōsus, from tenebrae, darkness.] ten'e·bros'i·ty (-brŏs'ĭ-tē) n. |
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Tenebrous
Ten"e*brous\, a. [L. tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae darkness: cf. F. t['e]n['e]breux.] Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. -- Ten"e*brous*ness, n. The most dark, tenebrous night. --J. Hall (1565). The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. --Longfellow.
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tenebrous
"full of darkness," c.1420, from O.Fr. tenebreus (11c.), from L. tenebrosus, from tenebræ "darkness" (see temerity).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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