tenebrousness

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tenebrousness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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           The most dark, tenebrous night.          --J. Hall
                                                    (1565).
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           The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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