Meaning of pænumbra | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete and rare spelling of penumbra.

alt-of, no-plural, obsolete, rare

Examples

“It was the pænumbra which surrounded the bright nucleus of a faith in a “God who is love.””

“An Atom and a Molecule were taking a drive one afternoon in the pænumbra of the Kosmos.”

“These ideas have in recent days received such a thorough support from English workers that the formulæ of Ehrlich are, for a time at least, entering the pænumbra of an eclipse.”

“And every image carries with it a pænumbra, or halo, of feeling which is also the ghost of an original emotional experience.”

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