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Definition of tenebrous:
- Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.
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When they stepped forth from the door of the tenebrous little church, the mellow light of sunset was streaming along the broken pavement and grass, and glowing on the gray walls and ivy of the old building.
- "The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3", Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. -
A few days later he saw at his club a gentleman of his acquaintance, named Austin, who was famous for his intimate knowledge of London life, both in its tenebrous and luminous phases.
- "The Great God Pan", Arthur Machen. -
If only a little of this light we hold so cheap were to illumine the tenebrous fastnesses we have just left, then, perhaps we, in our dull worldly way, might be able to assimilate the mystic to the common, the unseen to the seen, the unknown to the known.
- "Occultism and Common-Sense", Beckles Willson.