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形容詞

tenebral

1. Profoundly dark.
   • 1898, The Medical Brief: A Monthly Journal of Scientific Medicine, page 296:

     […] thou tenebral speck of foul negation : […]

   • 1913 March 7, The Architect & Contract Reporter, volume 89, page 245:

     […] despite the mass of tenebral gloom, inseparable from silk hat and black frock-coat, yet the artist shows a sense of "values" and harmony which pleases the observer.

   • 1917 March 17, The Bellman, volume 22, page 298:

     Of course, Mr. Gibson has written many other things less mortuary, […] But the idea seems to be, when a smashing effect is desired, to pull down the shades, […] It is not alone in verse that this tenebral tendency is manifest.

   • 1925, Louis Tracy, The Black Cat, page 259:

     But the darkness was tenebral, for the door was closed again, and the blinds were drawn. Hethcott stumbled over the lamp-stand, but, heedless of his sister's scream, knowing she was unhurt, made for the lighted hall.

   • 1986, David Bindman, Essays on British Narrative Art, page 55:

     The shadows on either side of the vessel, the dark waters of the cave to the left, and the hollow rocks to the right, all belong to a tenebral range close to pure black. I am not able to tell whether this lower range is enhanced. It may be that the pigments have physically decayed: the Morning Herald for 5 May 1829 speaks of positive indigo, which is hard to find […]

   • 2026, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Critical Role campaign 4, episode 29:

     There will be a tenebral gloom in that place.