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/nˈeɪdər/ Listen

noun

Nadir n.

That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

The lowest point; the time of greatest depression. "The seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe."

Nadir of the sun (Astron.), the axis of the conical shadow projected by the earth.

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Etymology of 'Nadir'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nadir" Quotes from Famous Books

... and imaginary, the narrative of her accidental shipwreck, and his opinion that her death was a public blessing. The author of this shameful document was Seneca, and in composing it he reached the nadir of his moral degradation. Even the lax morality of a most degenerate age condemned him for calmly sitting down to decorate with the graces of rhetoric and antithesis an atrocity too deep for the powers of indignation. A Seneca could stoop to write what a Thrasea Paetus ...

— Seekers after God • Frederic William Farrar

... really unwinding now. "Nor is even that the nadir of this socio-economic hodge-podge we've allowed to develop, this economy of production for sale, rather than production for use." He stabbed with his finger. "I think one of the best examples of what was ...

— Subversive • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... they will. Well, I will, I will; gad, you shall command me from the Zenith to the Nadir. But the deuce take me if I say a good thing till you come. But prithee, dear rogue, make haste, prithee make haste, I shall burst else. And yonder your uncle, my Lord Touchwood, swears he'll disinherit you, ...

— The Comedies of William Congreve - Volume 1 [of 2] • William Congreve

... at a convenient distance from Mr. Pope, we may safely wish his days had been prolonged, not necessarily to those of his mother, but to the Psalmist's span, so that he might have witnessed the dawn of a brighter day. 1744 was the nadir of the eighteenth century. With Macbeth the dying Pope ...

— Obiter Dicta - Second Series • Augustine Birrell

... marked the nadir of Rose's career at the Globe. From then on, she was steadily in the ascendent, not only in John Galbraith's good graces, which was all of course that mattered. She won, it appeared, a sort of tolerant esteem from some ...

— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

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