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Adumbration definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADUMBRA'TION, n.
1. The act of making a shadow or faint resemblance.
2. A faint sketch; an imperfect representation of a thing.
3. In heraldry, the shadow only of a figure, outlined, and painted of a color darker than the field.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand [syn: prefiguration, foreshadowing, adumbration]
2: a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation

Merriam Webster's

noun see adumbrate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Shadowing forth, faint sketch, faint representation, indistinct image, shadowy outline, dim approximation. 2. Type, image, shadow, symbol, premonition, dark prophecy, foreshadowing, prefiguring, presage, prototype, mystery.