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( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 ) lloeces (=in Hell) gis, n’i ai luur, En tenebres e en puur
S Brendmup 1418
(
c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin
) ‘[...] en enfer, el quel nus truum lisant que sunt nuef espiritals peines.’ ‘Queles ?’ ‘La premiere est feus [...]. La siste tenebres [...]’
Eluc 83.14
(
1260-70; MS: s.xiv1
) Si enterunt en grant dolur E en tenebres e en plur; En fu de sufre, en poys buylaunt
Man pechezants 8118
2theol.spiritual darkness, state of separation from God (associated with sin):
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Seit faite la veie de els teniebres (var.
(C: s.xiim) teneibres
) e esculurgement (Latin: Fiat via illorum tenebrae et lubricum)Oxf Ps1 43.34.7
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Les sedanz en tenebres e en umbre de mort
Oxf PsANTS 108.106.10
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 ) D’icest present secle ensement [...] par l’entremelleure S’en depart la tenebre oscure
Dial GregSATF 18570
(
s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm
) tu [...] almoigne delivre de tut pecchee et mort et ne soeffre point l’alme aler en tenebres
Tobit ANB 148
3eccl.liturgicalTenebrae, office sung on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the Holy Week during which candles are extinguished gradually after every psalm symbolizing the darkness of the time of the crucifixion:
(
1220-30; MS: s.xiv1
) si fu entre le juesdi absolu e le venredi beneoit, e si avoie [...] dit le servise que l’en apele tenebres
Vernac Lit 371.59
mettre en tenebres
theol.to cast into darkness, bring to a state of separation from God (associated with sin):
(
s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4
) Mais deables nos a sorpris E noz cuers en tenebres mis
Conceptionwace 1680
(
s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim
) Li mausfez l’unt maintenant prise E si l’unt en tenebres mise, U nule fois n'aura leesce
Vis S Paulross1 295
(
MS: s.xiiim
) Mais diables nus unt supris E nos quers en tenebris mis
A-N Piety 172.544
tenebres (1121-25)