TENEBROSITY
Ten`e*bros"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness. Burton.
TENEBROUS Ten"e*brous, a. Etym: [L. tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae darkness: cf. F. ténébreux.]
Defn: Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.
— Ten"e*brous*ness, n.
The most dark, tenebrous night. J. Hall (1565).
The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. Longfellow.
TENEMENT
Ten"e*ment, n. Etym: [OF. tenement a holding, a fief, F. tènement,
LL. tenementum, fr. L. tenere to hold. See Tenant.]
1. (Feud. Law)
Defn: That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
2. (Common Law)
Defn: Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; — called also free or frank tenements. The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of possession is called "tenure." Blackstone.
3. A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.