Definitions for Tenebrae

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Tenebrae Ten·e·brae

Spelling: [ten-uh-brey]

IPA: /ˈtɛn əˌbreɪ/

Tenebrae is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in Tenebrae (abeeenrt).

Definitions for Tenebrae

noun

1. the office of matins and lauds for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week, sung respectively on the afternoon of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of that week, at which the Crucifixion is commemorated by the gradual extinguishment of candles.

Origin of Tenebrae

1645-55; Latin: literally, darkness

Examples for Tenebrae

Si ergo lumen, quod in te est, Tenebrae sunt, ipsae Tenebrae quantae erunt?

It arose thus: Lafontaine went one day with Racine to Tenebrae, and was given a Bible.

It seemed to them that they were ready to enter a church on the day of Tenebrae.