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limbo

In Christian theology, a region for the souls of those who were not admitted to the divine vision. Limbus infantum was a place where unbaptized infants enjoyed inferior blessedness, and limbus patrum was where the prophets of the Old Testament dwelt. The word was first used in this sense in the 13th century by Thomas Aquinas.

limbo

West Indian dance in which the performer leans backwards from the knees to pass under a pole, which is lowered closer to the ground with each attempt. The world record has been unchanged since 1973 at 15.5 cm/61/8 in, although on roller skates the record is 13.3 cm/51/4 in.



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No ship is wholly bad; and now that their bodies that had braved so many tempests have been blown off the face of the sea by a puff of steam, the evil and the good together into the limbo of things that have served their time, there can be no harm in affirming that in these vanished generations of willing servants there never has been one utterly unredeemable soul.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
They were both shadows, and this was the unending limbo of toil.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
My lean runner's stomach has passed into the limbo of memory.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
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