Caliginous vs Tenebrous - What's the difference?
caliginous | tenebrous |
Dark, obscure; murky.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 155:
Dark and gloomy.
* 1847 , , "Evangeline"
* 1992 , Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, "Troia Vittrice'': Reviving Troy in the Woods of Jerusalem", ''Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History , page 174
* 1993 , , Natalie Zemon Davis, Michelle Perrot, A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes'',
* 2008 , Edited by Brian W. Shaffer and Cynthia F. Wong, Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro , University Press of Mississippi, page xi,
As adjectives the difference between caliginous and tenebrous
is that caliginous is dark, obscure; murky while tenebrous is dark and gloomy.caliginous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Inside the atmosphere was rank and caliginous : fumes rose from puddles, groans sifted through the shadows.
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*tenebrous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress
Met in a dusky arch,
- and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods.
page 62, 1991, ''Storia delle donne in Occidente , Volume III: Dal Rinascimento all'etá moderna,
- White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous .
- Although Ishiguro's novels are arguably more overtly concerned with emotional and psychological matters than with historical ones, it is certainly no accident that he sets all of his novels, as Margaret Atwood maintains, "against tenebrous historical backdrops."
