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- noun Plural form of
umbra .
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Examples
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Photometria, sive, De mensura et gradibus luminis, colorum et umbrae.
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[1008] Errant exangues sine corpore et ossibus umbrae.
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Istae se statim umbrae offerunt tanto squalore et in omni fere diverticulo tanta macie, ut illas jamjam moribundas putes.
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Mons sterilis et nivosus, ubi intempesta nocte umbrae apparent.
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That which on earth is called diffusion of light, that luminous matter which the air holds in suspension, which creates the twilight and the daybreak, which produces the umbrae and penumbrae, and all the magic of chiaro-oscuro, does not exist on the moon.
Round the Moon 2003
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* Innuit in homine esse imaginem Dei, sed imperfectam et qualem umbrae: [1011] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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-- Ed. [91] "Innuit in homine esse imaginem Dei, sed imperfectam et qualem umbrae."
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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_Aen_ I 607-8, which Ovid is clearly imitating: 'dum montibus umbrae/lustrabunt, _conuexa_ polus dum _sidera_ pascet'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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One of Galileo's most striking discoveries, when he pointed his telescope to the heavenly bodies, was that of the irregularly shaped spots on the sun, with the dark central _umbra_ and the less dark, but more extensive, _penumbra_ surrounding it, sometimes with several umbrae in one penumbra.
History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892
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Unde umbrae cesserunt, corpore adveniente, ut jam in Christo et veritatem habeamus et omnem plenitudinem.
freericky commented on the word umbrae
The darkest part of a shadow, especially the cone-shaped region of full shadow cast by Earth, the Moon, or another body during an eclipse.
October 4, 2008