Pænumbra

"Pænumbra" in a Sentence (4 examples)

It was the pænumbra which surrounded the bright nucleus of a faith in a “God who is love.”

An Atom and a Molecule were taking a drive one afternoon in the pænumbra of the Kosmos.

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.

And every image carries with it a pænumbra, or halo, of feeling which is also the ghost of an original emotional experience.

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