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Adumbration

noun
1.
The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand.  Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefiguration.
2.
A sketchy or imperfect or faint representation.





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"Adumbration" Quotes from Famous Books



... an inestimable preciousness in the Christian doctrine of the "forgiveness of the sins." Of that divine mercy—of that sin-uncreating power—the ancient world knew nothing; but in Marcus we find some dim and faint adumbration of the doctrine, expressed in a manner which might at least breathe calm into the spirit of the philosopher, though it could never reach the hearts of the suffering multitude. For "suppose," he says, "that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity,—for thou wast made by nature ...
— Seekers after God • Frederic William Farrar
... down to the 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 of some ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... silence of the few moments of waiting Paul passed from the boy to whom the earth had been a fairyland to the man grappling with great realities. In those few moments he lived through his past life and faced an adumbration of ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke


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


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