'tenebrous' in At the New Yorker | Bookmarker

Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

(adjective) shut off from the light; dark murky / (adjective) hard to understand; obscure / (adjective) causing gloom

they flatter the writer with the tenebrous incense of the oracular

—p.245 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner

notable

9 years, 4 months ago