umbra
noun
umbrae
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pluralof umbra.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Virgil thought the odour exhaled by the Juniper tree noxious, and he speaks of the Juniperis gravis umbra:— "Surgamus! solet esse gravis cantantibus umbra; Juniperis gravis umbra; nocent et frugibus umbrae."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
The Justices of that day bore a heavier burden than their successors--hodie nominis umbrae.
From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman
But the ancient habitues—the magni nominis umbrae, contemporaries of Brummell in his zenith, boon companions of George IV. in his regency—still haunted the spot.
From My Novel — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Happily these umbrae pallentes have now vanished, and I trust we will make the ties of friendship closer and stronger by establishing between us a community and exchange of prayers.
From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Robert Ornsby
Plato truly believ'd his archetypal Idēas to possess the fourth dimension: For since our solid is triple, but always Its shade only double, solids as umbrae Must lack equally one dimension also.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
