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English
Etymology
From New Latin tenebrificus, from Latin tenebrae (“darkness”) + -i- + -ficus (“making, causing”).[1]
Adjective
tenebrific (comparative more tenebrific, superlative most tenebrific)
- Producing darkness, obscuring; (loosely) gloomy.
Tenebrific stars were once thought to be the source of darkness during the night.
1793, Robert Burns, “Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. , 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: T Cadell, , and William Creech, , published 1793, →OCLC, stanza X, page 222:It lightens, it brightens, / The tenebrific ſcene, / To meet with, and greet with / My Davie, or my Jean!
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