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- proper noun
Paradise .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn
USPS Stamp Commemorates Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th Birthday 2009
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Tell this soul with sorrow laden if within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Senators Clinton and Schumer Read "The Raven" - January 30, 2001 2001
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But the nucleus of the destroyer was now upon us; even here in Aidenn, I shudder while I speak.
An Exchange on Psychohistory Mazlish, Bruce 1973
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Aidenn: Eden, Paradise, from the Arabic form _Adn_; coined by Poe for the rhyme.
Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill
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Impelled by an instinct of self-torture, the lover asks whether he shall have "respite" from the painful memories of "Lenore," here or hereafter, and finally whether in the "distant Aidenn" he and his love shall be reunited; to all of which the raven returns his one answer.
Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill
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But the nucleus of the destroyer was now upon us; -- even here in Aidenn, I shudder while I speak.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various
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The peculiar character of his wonderful imagination made actual life less real to him than his own land of dreams: the "distant Aidenn," the
Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill
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Aidenn (a'den), paradise (from the Arabic word for Eden, used by Poe for the sake of the rhyme).
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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Sweet were her eyes, full of pictures of Aidenn, --
The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems Frances Fuller Victor 1864
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Doubting on the verge of Aidenn, turning now to covet death!
The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Henry Kendall 1860
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