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English
Noun
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.