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tenebrizing

tenebrizing is the present participle and gerund of tenebrize.

Meaning of tenebrize

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
  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

Questions about tenebrizing

What is tenebrizing the present participle and gerund of?
Tenebrizing is the present participle and gerund of tenebrize.

Words near tenebrizing in the dictionary

  1. tenebrities
  2. tenebrity
  3. tenebrize
  4. tenebrized
  5. tenebrizes
  6. tenebrizing
  7. tenebrose
  8. tenebrosin
  9. tenebrosins
  10. tenebrosity
  11. tenebrous

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