Tenebrific

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tenebrific \Ten`e*brif"ic\, a. [L. tenebrae darkness + facere to
     make.]
     Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.
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           It lightens, it brightens,


           The tenebrific scene.                    --Burns.
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           Where light
           Lay fitful in a tenebrific time.         --R. Browning.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tenebrific
       adj : dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" [syn: {tenebrous}, {tenebrious}]