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Definition of Tenebrae
1. Proper noun. A Christian religious service celebrated by the Western Church on the evening before or early morning of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, involving the gradual extinguishing of candles while a series of readings and psalms are chanted or recited. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenebrae
1. a religious service [n]
Medical Definition of Tenebrae
1. The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days. Origin: L, pl, darkness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenebrae
Literary usage of Tenebrae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands by Hugh Fraser (1910)
"... Guests —Holy Week —"tenebrae" — A Wonderful Moment — Mustapha's Miserere —
Easter Morning — The Illumination of St. Peter's — "Did He Come Down Alive. ..."
2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1903)
"1055a): ubi lux non est, tenebrae sunt; non quia aliquid sunt tenebrae, sed ipsa
lucia absentia tenebrae dicuntur. sicut silent inni non aliqua res est, ..."
3. Last Winter in Rome by Charles Richard Weld (1865)
"... Holy Week — Palm Sunday — The Palms of St. Peter's— The tenebrae in the Sistine
Chapel— The Miserere — How to behave in a Crowd — English Rudeness — The ..."
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