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A shadow cast (as in an eclipse) where the light is partly but not wholly cut off by the intervening body : a space of partial illumination between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light. (plural)

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  • It's a double-edged sword: Once they started finding "penumbrae," the courts turned it around on us and made up all sorts of stuff to NARROW our rights and expanded the...
  • My view is that this would suggest a possibility that such statutes would in essence end up with penumbrae.
  • From the top of the terrace he gazed upon this vague form standing up like a phantom in the penumbrae of the evening.
  • 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...
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