;Posted on 11/22/2016 6:01:41 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
TENEBROUS [TEN uh brus]
adjective
A tenebrous place is dark and gloomy. Tenebrae is a Latin noun (plural in form, singular in meaning) that means "darkness," from which several Latin adjectives, including tenebrosus, were formed, all meaning "dark, gloomy."
Tenebrae is te name given to a Catholic church ritual sung on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week, commemorating the Crucifixion. It is accompanied by the gradual extinguishing of candles, leaving the church in darkness.
A landscape can be tenebrous; so can the interior of one of those Charles Addams (cartoonist, born 1912) houses.
Murder mystery films often use tenebrous rooms and hallways for atmospere.
The Roman poet Catullus (c.87-c 54b.c.) wrote of the iter tenebricosum (dark and gloomy road) whence, they say, no one returns, beating Hamlet's "bourn" whence "no traveller returns" by more than 16 centuries.
A playful, though morbidly applied, word describing the road we sought to escape by electing a bright, shiny puzzle of a man. Let us pray he does not lead us into tenebrous trouble but shines a light into the gloom bringing warmth and joy.
Now we move out of the tenebrous shadows of the globalist and muslim dominated world, toward the still dimly perceived light!!
Hillary voters have descended into a tenebrous reality of their own making.
Nine out of ten bros voted against Hillary.
So true. So sad but so true. Wen will our dark skin brothers demand their freedom? They are enslaved by their own and by the smooth tongued liars who keep them oppressed.
In January, a mood change from tenebrous
To something greater and better, more generous
In spirit, in giving
We all will be living
In a new world that’s more than just “them or us”
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