"tenebral" meaning in English

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      "tenebra",
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  "etymology_text": "Apparently from Latin tenebra + -al; compare taxonomic Latin tenebralis.",
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          "ref": "1898, The Medical Brief: A Monthly Journal of Scientific Medicine, page 296:",
          "text": "[…] thou tenebral speck of foul negation : […]",
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          "ref": "1913 March 7, The Architect & Contract Reporter, volume 89, page 245:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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          "ref": "1917 March 17, The Bellman, volume 22, page 298:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1925, Louis Tracy, The Black Cat, page 259",
          "text": "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."
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          "ref": "1986, David Bindman, Essays on British Narrative Art, page 55:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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          "ref": "2026, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Critical Role campaign 4, episode 29",
          "text": "There will be a tenebral gloom in that place."
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      "tenebra",
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