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- noun idiomatic A symbolic "
valley oftears "; meaning theworld and thesorrows felt through life. Similar to the Old Testament Psalm 23's reference to the "valley of the shadow of death ", the phrase implies thatsadness is part of the physical world (i.e. part of human experience).
Etymologies
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From vale a Middle English word meaning a valley or a dale.
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