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Shadow of death

Shadow \Shad"ow\ (sh[a^]d"[-o]), n. [Originally the same word as shade. [root]162. See Shade.]

  1. Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1.

  2. Darkness; shade; obscurity.

    Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise.
    --Denham.

  3. A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.

    In secret shadow from the sunny ray, On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid.
    --Spenser.

  4. A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
    --Shak.

  5. That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower.

    Sin and her shadow Death.
    --Milton.

  6. A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. ``Hence, horrible shadow!''
    --Shak.

  7. An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type.

    The law having a shadow of good things to come.
    --Heb. x. 1.

    [Types] and shadows of that destined seed.
    --Milton.

  8. A small degree; a shade. ``No variableness, neither shadow of turning.''
    --James i. 17.

  9. An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. [A Latinism]
    --Nares.

    I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement.
    --Massinger.

    Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death.
    --Ps. xxiii. 4.

Usage examples of "shadow of death".

As the story of Han Qing-jao took over Xenocide and caused it to become two books, so also the story of Petra took over this, Bean's second book, and caused there to be a third, Shadow of Death (which I may extend to the longer phrase from the Twenty-third Psalm, The Valley of the Shadow of Death.

In the shadow of Death's spectre, ever a threat to end what you will not relinquish.

They had folded not merely from the church floor to the top of the scaffold, however, but into the shadow of Death, and she didn't have the leisure to indulge in the comfort of thumb sugar.