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Definition of Limbos
1. limbo [n] - See also: limbo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limbos
Literary usage of Limbos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"limbos Patram. The half-way house between earth and heaven, where the patriarchs
and prophets, after death, await the coming of Messiah. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1871)
"limbos et fascia mediana nigri. One specimen, collected by Mr. Stretch, ...
limbos latos et fase:» mediana nigri. Fimbria versus apicem in maculam extensa ..."
3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1850)
"I believe the origin of the limbos to be certainly Mongolian, ie, from beyond
the snow, and their chief residence is Eastern Nepal, where they long were ..."
4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"... where all unbaptized infants are kept for ever, only deprived of blessedness
in consequence of original sin. Tben above this is the limbos ..."
5. The Passions of the Human Soul by Charles Fourier, John Reynell Morell, Hugh Doherty (1851)
"1 st social period Anterior subversion or philosophical limbos . ... 26, 27
Posterior subversions or apocalyptic limbos . ..."
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