Pronounced: tenebrific, adj
Notes: I saw nothing at all familiar in this word to give me a clue to its meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word licit means “legal or legitimate”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1400s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I assume most people realized that our word is the positive side of ‘illicit’ – but I didn’t know that the word licit existed. It’s odd that illicit should be so common and licit so rarely used. Our word comes from the Latin word licere (to be allowed).
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