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Search phrase: limbo

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All's Well That Ends WellAW V.iii.260Limbo and of furies and I know not what; yet I was inLimbo, and of Furies, and I know not what: yet I was in
The Comedy of ErrorsCE IV.ii.32No. He's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell. No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse then hell:
Henry VIIIH8 V.iv.63'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they are like to dance'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they are like to dance
Titus AndronicusTit III.i.149As far from help as limbo is from bliss!As farre from helpe as Limbo is from blisse,

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limboprison, confinement, incarceration
Limbodomain on the border of hell believed to contain the souls of unbaptised infants and of just people born before Christ
limbo patrumlimbo [temporary home of departed spirits between heaven and hell] of the fathers: gaol, imprisonment

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World [outside Britain], places and peoples
Latin...e domine (lll iv ii 103) read master limbo patrum (h8 v iv 63) ...
...patrum (h8 v iv 63) limbo of the fathers [in jail] lux tua vita m...

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
LIMBOBASIClimbo n

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