pænumbra
English edit
Noun edit
pænumbra (plural not attested)
- Obsolete and rare spelling of penumbra
- 1868 February 1, Frederic Seebohm, “On the Christian Hypothesis, and the Method of Its Verification”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume III (new series; volume IX, old series), number XIV, London: Chapman and Hall, page 185:
- It was the pænumbra which surrounded the bright nucleus of a faith in a “God who is love.”
- 1884 May 22, “Varieties”, in The Present Age. A Weekly Journal of Civilization., volume III, number 21 (whole 103), Chicago, Ill.: J. Fred Waggoner Company, page 289:
- An Atom and a Molecule were taking a drive one afternoon in the pænumbra of the Kosmos.
- 1907 March 23, Jonathan Wright, “The Physical Processes of Immunity and Infection”, in New York Medical Journal: A Weekly Review of Medicine, volume LXXXV, New York: A. R. Elliott Publishing Co., page 538:
- 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.
- 1922, Albert Edward Bailey, “Pictures and Children”, in The Use of Art in Religious Education (The Abingdon Religious Education Texts), New York, Cincinnati: The Abingdon Press, page 42:
- And every image carries with it a pænumbra, or halo, of feeling which is also the ghost of an original emotional experience.