limbo
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- noun
- /ˈlɪmboʊ/
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limbo
- Children who don 't tell the truth end up in limbo.
- limbo and hell
- heaven and limbo
Examples
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I thought these spirits were in limbo.
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Your dreams of finding your father let me find you and bring you to this place, this limbo between Heaven and Hell.
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Maybe, maybe we're in limbo waiting to enter Heaven.
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Without it, if they die, they go to limbo.
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Steve Jobs is not in Hell but is suffering in Limbo.
Blog text (17) -
Dante placed him in Limbo where there is no pain or real punishment.
Academic text (2018) -
That's what you say, but I read the other day... that limbo 's only for children who haven 't been baptized.
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Though for him this was only of marginal significance, it did have some reality—for instance, in the case of unbaptized infants in Limbo.
Academic text (2008) -
According to Catholic teaching, infants who die unbaptized go to limbo instead of heaven or hell.
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Many believe that unbaptized souls are placed in limbo after death, awaiting God's mercy.
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A tropical tree with smooth red bark that gives a sticky resin used for varnish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Limbo comes from the Latin limbus, which means 'edge' or 'border'. In old church belief it was the border place for souls not in heaven or hell, so limbo was thought of as being 'in between' those final places.