Definition of "shadowes" []

• Plural form of shadowe. (noun)

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• "The "shadowes" with which sin frightens us are first compared to the imaginary creatures into which fancy shapes the clouds; then sin itself (relegated from an active to a passive part) is likened not to a pure creation of the fancy, but to an exaggerated picture of a real monster displayed by "policy," i.e. the craft which seeks to debar men from their desires."
• "Sew Lolrus haz gotted iyn touches wif kitteh adn tole hers tu reelaxx adn putt taht annoiying flashlite awai, becuz itz blyndyng ebbereeboddee adn creeateyng sum gnormus shadowes"
• "Euery house almost had a cisteme or well in a garden on the backe side: in which gardens grew vines (with ripe clusters of grapes) making pleasant shadowes, and Tabacco nowe commonly knowen and vsed in England, wherewith their women there dye their faces reddish, to make them seeme fresh and young: Pepper Indian and common; figge-trees bearing both white and red figges: Peach trees not growing very tall: Orenges, Limons, Quinces, Potato-roots,"