Definitions
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- noun Alternative spelling of
somberness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state of partial or total darkness
- noun a manner that is serious and solemn
- noun a feeling of melancholy apprehension
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Examples
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The sombreness and the sternness of it appeal to me, but not the sadness.
CHAPTER 9 2010
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They were eyes that masked the soul with a thousand guises, and that sometimes opened, at rare moments, and allowed it to rush up as though it were about to fare forth nakedly into the world on some wonderful adventure, — eyes that could brood with the hopeless sombreness of leaden skies; that could snap and crackle points of fire like those which sparkle from
Chapter 3 2010
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"The coastal region is quite flat, so that an excess of sky bears down with an intolerable weight, pressing the essence out of everything beneath it for it imposes such a burden on us that we have all been forced inward on ourselves in an introspective sombreness intensified by the perpetual abrasive clamor of the sea."
The Big Book of Quixotisms greygirlbeast 2008
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Fue corriendo a donde estaba Simón Pedro con el discípulo preferido de Jesús, y le dijo: or is it too cheery for the sombreness of Semana Santa?
"No sabemos d�nde lo han puesto" / "We don't know where they have put him" 2007
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Fue corriendo a donde estaba Simón Pedro con el discípulo preferido de Jesús, y le dijo: or is it too cheery for the sombreness of Semana Santa?
"No sabemos d�nde lo han puesto" / "We don't know where they have put him" 2007
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Fue corriendo a donde estaba Simón Pedro con el discípulo preferido de Jesús, y le dijo: or is it too cheery for the sombreness of Semana Santa?
"No sabemos d�nde lo han puesto" / "We don't know where they have put him" 2007
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Fue corriendo a donde estaba Simón Pedro con el discípulo preferido de Jesús, y le dijo: or is it too cheery for the sombreness of Semana Santa?
"No sabemos d�nde lo han puesto" / "We don't know where they have put him" 2007
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Someone toddles a craft, where sails and eyes and transports bring sombreness.
Poetic Machines 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Someone toddles a craft, where sails and eyes and transports bring sombreness.
2007 November : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Fue corriendo a donde estaba Simón Pedro con el discípulo preferido de Jesús, y le dijo: or is it too cheery for the sombreness of Semana Santa?
"No sabemos d�nde lo han puesto" / "We don't know where they have put him" 2007
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