Crossword-Solution: TENEBRAE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tenebrae | n. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TENEBRAE | anagram | BEANTREE |
We have 12 clues for the answer “TENEBRAE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CANONICAL hours of Matins and Lauds during last three days of Holy Week | 1 answer |
| CANONICAL hours timed to finish as it is growing dark | 1 answer |
| HOLY Week services | 1 answer |
| Holy Week candle-snuffing service | 1 answer |
| Holy Week ceremony | 1 answer |
| Holy Week service, for Catholics | 1 answer |
| LAUDS, canonical hours of | 1 answer |
| MATINS, canonical hours of | 1 answer |
| Roman Catholic service at which candles are successively extinguished | 1 answer |
| EARTHQUAKE felt on the death of Christ, canonical hours signifying the | 2 answers |
| canonical hours | 5 answers |
| Darkness | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TENEBRAE (5)
The inspiration of the breeze Gives every reed a voice From tenebrae and silences; Over the valleys borne, Come organ harmonies; And when the low winds call, The pines with miserere mourn A requiem musical, Softer than moonbeams fall Across the starry oriels of night, Flooding the azure round With hushed delight And sanctity of sound.
Quod postremum videri potest desumptum ex [word in Greek], obscuritas, tenebrae: nihil enim aeque solet conciliare somnum, quam caliginosa profundae noctis obscuritas.
CHAPTER 15 There were Tenebrae on the following days, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, and Lothair was present on both occasions.
The history of Aquitaine, which was not written by the Benedictines, will probably never be written, because there are no longer Benedictines: thus we are not able to light up these archaeological tenebrae in the history of our manners and customs on every occasion of their appearance.
Many lines might be quoted that startle us with their unforeseen vividness or some unexpected blaze of colour; when the fleece of gold is taken from the tree where it had long since shone like a beacon through the dark, the tree sinks back into the melancholy night, tristesque super coiere tenebrae (viii.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1973–2019).