Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a, penumbra; penumbra-like; partially dark.
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- adjective partially
shaded . - adjective
shady ,disreputable ,dishonest
Etymologies
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Examples
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Burns is translated to the fourth power by singing him -- without accompaniment -- just the whinnying of a tenor or soprano voice, vibrant with feeling and pathos, at the right time of the evening, or in some penumbrous atmosphere of seclusion where memory can work its miracles.
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
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For the imagination sees the highway of mortal existence where it ends abruptly, penumbrous, flecked with shade from the heart-shaped leaves of the Tree of Life: and the shadow is the sign that we have come at last within the pale of the tree's mysterious whisperings.
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Sober and weighty the penumbrous atmosphere in which the young creator sits; but how calm, thoughtful, and beautiful the dim vision of his face, lit by the sheltered radiance of ethereal fancies!
A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876
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Sober and weighty the penumbrous atmosphere in which the young creator sits; but how calm, thoughtful, and beautiful the dim vision of his face, lit by the sheltered radiance of ethereal fancies!
A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874
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