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Definition of Adumbration

Adumbration
Adumbration Ad`um*bra"tion, n. [L. adumbratio.] 1. The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth. 2. A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. --Bp. Horsley. 3. (Her.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.

Meaning of Adumbration from wikipedia

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- "lasting dynasty" (verse 28). Jon Levenson calls this an "undeniable adumbration" of Nathan's prophecy in 2 Samuel 7. Alice Bach notes that Abigail pronounces...
- skin and snakeskin, and patterns taken from African designs. Cubism's adumbrated geometry became coin of the realm in the 1920s. Art Deco's development...
- [was] ready for the idea of a notional or abstract contract of the kind adumbrated by Locke".: 200  In contrast, Kenyon adds that Algernon Sidney's Discourses...
- Akhmatova became an important leader for Russian poetry. Her poem Requiem adumbrates the perils encountered during the Stalinist era. Another notable 20th-century...
- umbilication umbr- shade, shadow Latin umbra adumbral, adumbrant, adumbrate, adumbration, adumbrative, antumbra, inumbrate, obumbrant, obumbrate, obumbration,...
- (literally, "the beautiful grandeur"), which was distinctively used to adumbrate a "civilized" culture in contrast to what were perceived as "barbaric"...
- a Papal bull of Pope Benedict XII. After the protonotaries left the adumbration of the minutes to the Abbreviators, those de Parco majori of the dignity...
- of thought in which the "object is conceptually present first in mere adumbration, then according to cir****stances both internal and external to it, and...
- litotical when in the serious mode, constantly amplified, qualified, adumbrated upon, nuanced and renuanced, until the magazine's pale-gray pages became...