Tenebrae
See also: tenebrae
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editLearned borrowing from Latin tenebrae (“shadows, darkness”).
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- (Christianity) A Christian religious service celebrated by the Western Church on the evening before or early morning of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, involving the gradual extinguishing of candles while a series of readings and psalms are chanted or recited.
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