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Adumbration

noun

The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand. Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefiguration.

A sketchy or imperfect or faint representation.

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Etymology of 'Adumbration'

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"Adumbration" Quotes from Famous Books

... admiration of ages such earthly commonplaces as a mother's brute affection, and the terrors of an infant? Surely the deeper insight of the philosopher may be allowed without the reproach of fancifulness, to see in it the adumbration ...

— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley

... jolly!" gasped Brown, hugging himself. "Haven't had a thrill approaching that since the McGill match, and even that was only a pale adumbration of what I've ...

— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor

... let me remind you of how this contrast is borne out by the fact that all that previous system was an adumbration, a shadow and a premonition of the perfect revelation that was to come. Temple, priest, sacrifice, law, the whole body of the Mosaic constitution of things was, as it were, a shadow thrown along the road ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

Words linked to "Adumbration" : representation, prevision, foreshadowing, prediction, anticipation