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Sombreness

noun
1.
A state of partial or total darkness.  Synonyms: gloom, somberness.
2.
A feeling of melancholy apprehension.  Synonyms: gloom, gloominess, somberness.
3.
A manner that is serious and solemn.  Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness.






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"Sombreness" Quotes from Famous Books



... great service Calvin has rendered to theological science and church discipline, there was an unnatural sombreness about him, which linked him rather with the Middle Ages and the hierarchical rule than with the glad, free spirit of a wholesome Christian life. At twenty-seven he had already drawn up a formula of doctrine and organization which he never changed and to which he ever held. ...
— Luther and the Reformation: - The Life-Springs of Our Liberties • Joseph A. Seiss

... fill'd with helpless babes and harmless women fond? Let those whose pleasant chance Took them, like me, among the German towns, After the war that pluck'd the fangs from France, With me pronounce Whether the frequent black, which then array'd Child, wife, and maid, Did most to magnify the sombreness of grief, Or add the beauty of a staid relief And freshening foil To cheerful-hearted Honour's ready smile! Beneath the heroic sun Is there then none Whose sinewy wings by choice do fly In the fine ...
— The Unknown Eros • Coventry Patmore

... there had been no breach in Robert's serenity, Catherine's poor last effort would have been much feebler, briefer, more hesitating. But when she saw him plunged for a short space in mortal discouragement, in a sombreness that as the days went on had its points and crests of feverish irritation, her anguished pity came to the help of her creed. Robert felt himself besieged, driven within the citadel, her being urging, grappling with his. In little half-articulate words and ways, in her attempts ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward



Words linked to "Sombreness" :   serious-mindedness, seriousness, apprehensiveness, apprehension, sombre, stodginess, earnestness, melancholy, sincerity, stuffiness, semidarkness, dread, gloom



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