Tenebrae

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. 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.

词形变化

Tenebræ alternative

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin tenebrae (“shadows, darkness”).
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