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Tenebrae

/ˈtɛnəˌbɹeɪ/

Tenebrae proper noun: a Christian religious service celebrated by the Western Church on the evening before or early morning of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, involving the gradual extinguishing of candles while a series of readings and psalms are chanted or recited.

Proper noun

Tenebrae

  1. A Christian religious service celebrated by the Western Church on the evening before or early morning of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, involving the gradual extinguishing of candles while a series of readings and psalms are chanted or recited.

Tenebrae meaning in Tamil

Tenebrae in Tamil

வாரக்கடைத் துதிப்பாடல்

Forms of Tenebrae

alternative formTenebræ

Origin of Tenebrae

Learned borrowing from Latin tenebrae (“shadows, darkness”).

Questions about Tenebrae

What does Tenebrae mean?
Tenebrae means a Christian religious service celebrated by the Western Church on the evening before or early morning of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, involving the gradual extinguishing of candles while a series of readings and psalms are chanted or recited.
What is Tenebrae in Tamil?
Tenebrae in Tamil is வாரக்கடைத் துதிப்பாடல். See Tenebrae meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Tenebrae?
Tenebrae is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Tenebrae?
Tenebrae is pronounced /ˈtɛnəˌbɹeɪ/.

Words near Tenebrae in the dictionary

  1. tends bar
  2. tends to one's knitting
  3. tendsome
  4. tendu
  5. tendus
  6. Tenebrae
  7. tenebral
  8. tenebrescence
  9. tenebrescences
  10. tenebrescent
  11. tenebricose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tenebrae (page history and authors); tenebrae (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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