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  • adjective of or pertaining to a market or forum
  • adjective utterly remote

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Examples

  • This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much as mentioned for the Orient from on high Which brake hell's gates visited a darkness that was foraneous.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much as mentioned for the Orient from on high Which brake hell’s gates visited a darkness that was foraneous.

    Ulysses 2003

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