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tenebrific

[ten-uh-brif-ik] / ˌtɛn əˈbrɪf ɪk /


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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

Now begins "the tenebrific passage of the tale."

From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield

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 Robert Burns

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 Thomas Carlyle




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