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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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- 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...
- "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...
- Art Deco, even as Deco branched out in many other directions. 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...
- Thomas had to hand for writing Under Milk Wood." Thomas’s horror of war, adumbrated in some of his poems of the 1930s and fuelled by his lived experience...
- Akhmatova became an important leader for Russian poetry. Her poem Requiem adumbrates the perils encountered during the Stalinist era. Another notable 20th-century...
- This work resembles the Hilchot of the Rif (Rabbi Isaac Alfasi)—also an adumbration—but differs in quoting later authorities: Maimonides, the Tosafists and...
- 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...