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"word": "development limbo"
},
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"word": "limbolike"
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"word": "limbo set"
}
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},
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"2": "enm",
"3": "limbo"
},
"expansion": "Middle English limbo",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "enm",
"2": "lymbo",
"t": "place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven"
},
"expansion": "lymbo (“place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"2": "la",
"3": "limbō"
},
"expansion": "Latin limbō",
"name": "der"
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},
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},
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"name": "glossary"
},
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"2": "limbus",
"t": "border, edge; hem; fringe, tassel"
},
"expansion": "limbus (“border, edge; hem; fringe, tassel”)",
"name": "m"
},
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"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "",
"3": "in limbō",
"t": "in limbo"
},
"expansion": "in limbō (“in limbo”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "",
"3": "e limbō",
"t": "out of limbo"
},
"expansion": "e limbō (“out of limbo”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*lemb-",
"t": "to hang limply or loosely"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *lemb- (“to hang limply or loosely”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*leb-",
"t": "to hang down loosely (?)"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely (?)”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "limp"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of limp",
"name": "doublet"
},
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"args": {
"1": "verb"
},
"expansion": "verb",
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}
],
"etymology_text": "The noun is derived from Middle English limbo, lymbo (“place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven”), from Latin limbō, the ablative singular of limbus (“border, edge; hem; fringe, tassel”) (notably in expressions like in limbō (“in limbo”) and e limbō (“out of limbo”)); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *lemb- (“to hang limply or loosely”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely (?)”). Doublet of limp.\nThe verb is derived from the noun.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "limbos",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"2": "+",
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"name": "en-noun"
}
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"hyphenation": [
"lim‧bo"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "hell"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "paradise"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "purgatory"
}
],
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Roman Catholicism",
"orig": "en:Roman Catholicism",
"parents": [
"Catholicism",
"Christianity",
"Abrahamism",
"Religion",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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},
{
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Afterlife",
"orig": "en:Afterlife",
"parents": [
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"Mythology",
"Philosophy",
"Religion",
"Body",
"Life",
"Culture",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Nature",
"Society",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1992, William R. LaFleur, “Jizō at the Crosswords”, in Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, part 1 (Original Concepts), page 57",
"text": "Limbo, or more exactly the notion of two different limbos within Christendom, was also an invention. Many medieval Christians had difficulty accepting the idea of eternal punishment meted out to two categories of persons who, on strictly technical grounds, were \"outside\" the Church and otherwise quite beyond the pale. The first category embraced wise and just people who died before the coming of Christ, and the second included all infants born within Christendom but, unfortunately, unbaptized at the time of their death.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A speculation, thought possibly to be on the edge of the bottomless pit of Hell, where the souls of innocent deceased people might exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, specifically those of the saints who died before the advent of Jesus Christ (who occupy the limbo patrum or limbo of the patriarchs or fathers) and those of unbaptized infants (who occupy the limbo infantum or limbo of the infants); (countable) the possible place where each category of souls might exist, regarded separately."
],
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"Roman Catholicism"
],
[
"edge",
"edge#Noun"
],
[
"bottomless pit",
"bottomless pit"
],
[
"Hell",
"Hell"
],
[
"souls",
"soul#Noun"
],
[
"innocent",
"innocent#Adjective"
],
[
"deceased",
"deceased#Adjective"
],
[
"people",
"person#Noun"
],
[
"exist",
"exist"
],
[
"temporarily",
"temporarily"
],
[
"enter",
"enter#Verb"
],
[
"heaven",
"heaven"
],
[
"saints",
"saint#Noun"
],
[
"died",
"die#Verb"
],
[
"advent",
"advent"
],
[
"Jesus Christ",
"Jesus Christ"
],
[
"occupy",
"occupy"
],
[
"patriarch",
"patriarch"
],
[
"fathers",
"father#Noun"
],
[
"unbaptized",
"unbaptized"
],
[
"infants",
"infant#Noun"
],
[
"category",
"category"
],
[
"regarded",
"regard#Verb"
],
[
"separately",
"separately"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Roman Catholicism, uncountable) A speculation, thought possibly to be on the edge of the bottomless pit of Hell, where the souls of innocent deceased people might exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, specifically those of the saints who died before the advent of Jesus Christ (who occupy the limbo patrum or limbo of the patriarchs or fathers) and those of unbaptized infants (who occupy the limbo infantum or limbo of the infants); (countable) the possible place where each category of souls might exist, regarded separately."
],
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"en:Roman Catholicism"
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
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"Christianity",
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"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kʻavaran",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "քավարան"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "preddverie na ada",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "преддверие на ада"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "llimbs"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "靈薄獄"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "língbáoyù",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "灵薄狱"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "předpeklí"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "limbo"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "limbus"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "voorgeborchte"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "limbus"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "välitila"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "limbes"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Limbus"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorhölle"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "limbus"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "a pokol tornáca"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"alt": "へんど",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hendo",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "辺土"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"alt": "へんごく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hengoku",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "辺獄"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "rimbo",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "림보"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jiog-ui byeonbang",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "지옥의 변방"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "prédvorje na pékolot",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пре́дворје на пе́колот"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "lymbo"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"word": "limbus"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "otchłań"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "limbo"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "limb",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лимб"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "limbus"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "predpeklie"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "limbo"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 5 3 4 2 4",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "limbo"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "My passport application has been stuck in bureaucratic limbo for two weeks.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1881 April 23, “Lord Beaconsfield and Homœpathy”, in George F[rederick] Shrady [Sr.], editor, The Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 19, New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Co. […], →OCLC, page 466, column 1",
"text": "Homœpathy, so-called, is an unutterable humbug, and is to be consigned to the eternal Limbos of the Unblessed—where, indeed, it is already for the most part gone.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1896, Honoré de Balzac, translated by Ernest Dowson, La Fille aux Yeux d’Or [The Girl with the Golden Eyes], London: Leonard Smithers […], →OCLC, page 95",
"text": "[U]rged beyond that line where the soul is mistress over herself, he lost himself in those delicious limboes, which the vulgar call so foolishly \"the imaginary regions.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1899 (date written), William Cowper Brann, “Talmage the Turgid”, in The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Brann Publishers, published 1919, page 200",
"text": "His [Thomas De Witt Talmage's] so-called \"sermons\" are but fragmentary and usually ignorant allusions to things in general. He seldom or never encroaches upon the realms of science and philosophy, although he frequently attempts it, and evidently imagines that he is succeeding admirably, when he is but sloshing around, like a drunken comet that is chiefly tail, in inane limboes.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Joy Ann James, “Black Feminism: Liberation Limbos and Existence in Gray”, in Lewis R[icardo] Gordon, editor, Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, part IV (Black Existence and Black Liberation), page 216",
"text": "Like unbaptized children and the non-Christian righteous, black feminisms have been relegated to an outer realm where, while not exactly punished for their sins, they are ghettoized for an alleged poor timing and inability to encounter the \"larger paradigms\" undergirding existence. Women from oppressed peoples routinely find themselves in liberation limbos.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I Think We Need Better than This from the Rail Industry”, in Rail, number 930, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51",
"text": "But the railway is in limbo, paralysed by indecision. Let's have some clarity.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 October 7, Jim Waterson, “Legal action by Doreen Lawrence and Prince Harry could mire Daily Mail for years”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-14",
"text": "The bigger worry for the Mail is that, if any of the claims are successful, it could open the door for other cases against the newspaper that could leave it in legal limbo for years.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Chiefly preceded by in: any in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion which results in deadlock, delay, or some other unresolved status."
],
"id": "en-limbo-en-noun-SaOOjpwz",
"links": [
[
"in",
"in#Preposition"
],
[
"in-between",
"in-between"
],
[
"condition",
"condition#Noun"
],
[
"state",
"state#Noun"
],
[
"neglect",
"neglect#Noun"
],
[
"oblivion",
"oblivion"
],
[
"results",
"result#Verb"
],
[
"deadlock",
"deadlock#Noun"
],
[
"delay",
"delay#Noun"
],
[
"unresolved",
"unresolved"
],
[
"status",
"status"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension)",
"(countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by in: any in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion which results in deadlock, delay, or some other unresolved status."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
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"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "llimbs"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"word": "nevyjasněná situace"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nejistota"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "limbo"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"word": "paitsio"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"word": "limbes"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schwebezustand"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"word": "bizonytalanság"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"word": "köztes állapot/helyzet"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rinbo",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"word": "リンボ"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "próżnia"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "limbo"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "limb",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лимб"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podvéšennoje sostojánije",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "подве́шенное состоя́ние"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 78 1 1 14 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "limbo"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1796 February, Constantia [pseudonym; Judith Sargent Murray], “The Traveller Returned, Concluded”, in The Gleaner. A Miscellaneous Production. […], volume III, number LXXXIV, Boston, Mass.: […] I[saiah] Thomas and E[benezer] T. Andrews, […], →OCLC, act IV, scene iii, page 156",
"text": "Patr[ick]. […] [S]hame burn my cheek! My maſter, d'ye ſee, had gotten into the limboes; […] / Major C[amden]. But vvhat do you mean by your maſter's being in the limboes, Patrick? / Patr. VVhy, Maſter Tipſtaff here—Isn't it Tipſtaff ye call him?—kidnapped him; that's all, Honey.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2020 January 28, Giselle Renarde, “Limbo Rock (Chubby Checker)”, in Play It on My Radio: A Diary in Music, [Los Gatos, Calif.]: [Smashwords], published 2021, page 171",
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"ref": "1990 March 26, “Low Motion: Technology Firms Dip, Pivot as Investors Drum Up Profits”, in Bill Laberis, editor, Computerworld: The Newsweekly of Information Systems Management, volume XXIV, number 13, Framingham, Mass.: CW Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 3",
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"ref": "2012 September 24, Anthony Linick, “June 2007”, in A Doggy Day in London Town: Life among the Dog People of Paddington Rec, volume IV, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 27",
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"ref": "1881 April 23, “Lord Beaconsfield and Homœpathy”, in George F[rederick] Shrady [Sr.], editor, The Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 19, New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Co. […], →OCLC, page 466, column 1",
"text": "Homœpathy, so-called, is an unutterable humbug, and is to be consigned to the eternal Limbos of the Unblessed—where, indeed, it is already for the most part gone.",
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"ref": "1896, Honoré de Balzac, translated by Ernest Dowson, La Fille aux Yeux d’Or [The Girl with the Golden Eyes], London: Leonard Smithers […], →OCLC, page 95",
"text": "[U]rged beyond that line where the soul is mistress over herself, he lost himself in those delicious limboes, which the vulgar call so foolishly \"the imaginary regions.\"",
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"ref": "a. 1899 (date written), William Cowper Brann, “Talmage the Turgid”, in The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Brann Publishers, published 1919, page 200",
"text": "His [Thomas De Witt Talmage's] so-called \"sermons\" are but fragmentary and usually ignorant allusions to things in general. He seldom or never encroaches upon the realms of science and philosophy, although he frequently attempts it, and evidently imagines that he is succeeding admirably, when he is but sloshing around, like a drunken comet that is chiefly tail, in inane limboes.",
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"ref": "1997, Joy Ann James, “Black Feminism: Liberation Limbos and Existence in Gray”, in Lewis R[icardo] Gordon, editor, Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, part IV (Black Existence and Black Liberation), page 216",
"text": "Like unbaptized children and the non-Christian righteous, black feminisms have been relegated to an outer realm where, while not exactly punished for their sins, they are ghettoized for an alleged poor timing and inability to encounter the \"larger paradigms\" undergirding existence. Women from oppressed peoples routinely find themselves in liberation limbos.",
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"ref": "2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I Think We Need Better than This from the Rail Industry”, in Rail, number 930, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51",
"text": "But the railway is in limbo, paralysed by indecision. Let's have some clarity.",
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"ref": "2022 October 7, Jim Waterson, “Legal action by Doreen Lawrence and Prince Harry could mire Daily Mail for years”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-14",
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"ref": "1894, Arthur [George Frederick] Griffiths, “Commonplace Criminals”, in Secrets of the Prison-house: Or Gaol Studies and Sketches […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 144",
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"inessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbosta",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"elative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboista",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"elative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboon",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboihin",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbolla",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboilla",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbolta",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboilta",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbolle",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"allative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboille",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"allative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbona",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"essive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboina",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"essive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboksi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "limboiksi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "limbotta",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboitta",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instructive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboin",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instructive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "See the possessive forms below.",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comitative"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "fi-decl-valo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "no gradation",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "1/valo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "fi-decl-valo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "limboni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojeni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbossani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboissani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbostani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"elative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboistani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"elative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbooni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboihini",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbollani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboillani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboltani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboiltani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbolleni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"allative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboilleni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"allative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"essive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboinani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"essive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbokseni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "limboikseni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "limbottani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboittani",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instructive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instructive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboineni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "fi-decl-valo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "limbosi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbosi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbosi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbosi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbosi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbosi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbosi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojesi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbossasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboissasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbostasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"elative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboistasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"elative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboosi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboihisi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbollasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboillasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboltasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboiltasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbollesi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"allative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboillesi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"allative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"essive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboinasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"essive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboksesi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "limboiksesi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "limbottasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboittasi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instructive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instructive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboinesi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "fi-decl-valo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "limbomme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbomme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbomme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbomme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbomme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbomme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbomme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojemme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbossamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboissamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbostamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"elative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboistamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"elative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboomme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboihimme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbollamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboillamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboltamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboiltamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbollemme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"allative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboillemme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"allative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"essive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboinamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"essive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboksemme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "limboiksemme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "limbottamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboittamme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instructive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instructive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboinemme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "fi-decl-valo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojenne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbossanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboissanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbostanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"elative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboistanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"elative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboonne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboihinne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"illative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbollanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboillanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboltanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboiltanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbollenne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"allative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboillenne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"allative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"essive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboinanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"essive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboksenne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "limboiksenne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "limbottanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboittanne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instructive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instructive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboinenne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "fi-decl-valo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonsa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonsa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonsa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonsa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonsa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonsa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbonsa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojensa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limboaan",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limboansa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojaan",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbojansa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "limbossaan",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
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