The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Word-a-Day 2008 Calendar (Houghton Mifflin) 5/7/8: umbra
umbra n. 1. A dark area, especially the blackest part of a shadow from which all light is cut off. See synonyms at shade. 2. Astronomy a. The completely dark portion of the shadow cast by the earth, moon, or other body during an eclipse. b. The darkest region of a sunspot.
Umbra also gave us
umbrage. He always took umbrage to living in his older sister's shadow—not just her shadow, but the very umbra of it.
Rating 10/10 dark places.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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