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tenebrize

tenebrize verb: to dwell in darkness.

Verb

tenebrize (third-person singular simple present tenebrizes, present participle tenebrizing, simple past and past participle tenebrized)

  1. (archaic, rare) To dwell in darkness.
    • you of the Laity, for tenebrizing, for your Conventicles;1648, Paul Knell, Israel and England paralelled, etc, page 17
    • That I had not a line or two from your hand by Mr. D. I suppose was rather mischance then intention: that I eagerly expected it may be credited from my frequent importunities, from which I know not how you will defend your self, so long as I tenebrize it here in this blind corner, where I almost...1662, Robert Loveday, Loveday's letters, domestick and forreign, page 68
  2. (rare) To make dark and shadowy.
    • The overall atmosphere is not merely murky but tenebrized and quite literally night-soaked.2006, Dani Cavallaro, “Oshii’s Technopolitics”, in The cinema of Mamoru Oshii: Fantasy, Technology, and Politics, Jefferson, N.C.; London: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 139

Forms of tenebrize

third-person singular presenttenebrizes
present participletenebrizing
past participletenebrized
pasttenebrized

Origin of tenebrize

From Latin tenebrae (“darkness”) + -ize.

Questions about tenebrize

What does tenebrize mean?
Tenebrize means to dwell in darkness.
What part of speech is tenebrize?
Tenebrize is a verb.
What is the past tense of tenebrize?
The past tense of tenebrize is tenebrized.

Words near tenebrize in the dictionary

  1. tenebrist
  2. tenebristic
  3. tenebrists
  4. tenebrities
  5. tenebrity
  6. tenebrize
  7. tenebrized
  8. tenebrizes
  9. tenebrizing
  10. tenebrose
  11. tenebrosin

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