1853 C. Brontë I. xiii. 229 Thinking meantime my own thoughts, living my own life in my own still, shadow-world.
1891 F. Thompson (1895) 50 A shadow-world, wherethrough the shadows wind Of all the loved and lovely of my kind.
1953 S. Spender 93 What Lawrence protested against was not intellect but the kind of intellectualization whereby men create a shadow-world for themselves.