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Definition of Sombreness

1. Noun. A state of partial or total darkness. "He struck a match to dispel the gloom"

2. Noun. A feeling of melancholy apprehension.

3. Noun. A manner that is serious and solemn.

Definition of Sombreness

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of somberness) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sombreness

somatroph somatrophs somatropin somber sombered somberer somberest sombering somberly somberness

sombernesses sombers sombre sombred sombrely sombreness (current term) sombrer sombrero sombreros sombres

sombrest sombring sombrous somdel somdomites some some(a) some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you some more

Literary usage of Sombreness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Puritan in Holland, England, and America: An Introduction to American by Douglas Campbell (1892)
"Nor can the sombreness which settled down upon the lives of the early English Puritans be attributed to their republican theories of government, ..."

2. The Puritan in Holland, England, and America: An Introduction to American by Douglas Campbell (1892)
"Nor can the sombreness which settled down upon the lives of the early English Puritans be attributed to their republican theories of government, ..."

3. Ethics of Literature by John A. Kersey (1894)
"... Intellectuality—His Proposition that Religion is a Human Product—Sources of his Source— Tacit Rage of Scandinavians Still Survives in sombreness of ..."

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