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      "t\u02c8wa\u026a\u02ccla\u026at"
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      "PIE worddw\u00f3h\u2081\nFrom Middle English twilight, twyelyghte, equivalent to twi- (\u201cdouble, half-\u201d) + light, literally \u2018second light, half-light\u2019. Cognate to Scots twa licht, twylicht, twielicht (\u201ctwilight\u201d), Low German twilecht, twelecht (\u201ctwilight\u201d), Dutch tweelicht (\u201ctwilight, dusk\u201d), German Zwielicht (\u201ctwilight, dusk\u201d). Compare Old English tw\u0113one l\u0113oht (\u201ctwilight\u201d)."
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            "mean": "The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth\u2019s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.\nI could just make out her face in the twilight."
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            "mean": "The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.\nIt was twilight by the time I got back home.\n1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate\u00a0, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear\u2014man, woman, or cat\u2014in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs."
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            "mean": "Any faint light through which something is seen.\n1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book VII, section 4, page 233:Two women, Eusabio\u2019s wife and sister, looked on from the deep twilight of the hut."
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            "mean": "(astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18\u00b0 below the horizon."
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            "mean": "(figurative, by extension) An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.\nThe twilight of one's life\n1689 (indicated as 1690), , An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding.\u00a0, London:    Eliz Holt, for Thomas Basset,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC:, Book IV, Chapter XIV\nThe twilight   of probability.\n1846 October 1 \u2013 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans,\u00a0, published 1848, \u2192OCLC:\u201cThey have not enough heart,\u201d said Edith, with a smile. The very twilight of a smile: so singularly were its light and darkness blended."
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            "mean": "Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.\n1717, Alexander Pope, \u201cEloisa to Abelard\u201d, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London:    W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot,\u00a0, published 1717, \u2192OCLC:"
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        "name": "Verb",
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          {
            "mean": "(transitive, poetic) To illuminate faintly."
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