Providing vague advance indications

Usage examples of adumbration.

Here is where Balfour in 1910 could find the first adumbration of his claim as an Englishman to know the Orient more and better than anyone else.

I think, by way of the entire nineteenth-century tradition of the Orient as therapeutic for the West, a tradition whose earliest adumbration is to be found in Quinet.

There would never have been any inquiry without this adumbration, there would never have been any knowledge without it.

Lazarus closed his eyes while on his face A tortured adumbration of a smile Flickered an instant.

I think I would miss mainly my God adumbrations in the many daily forms.

The description of the black forest with the evil stone, and of the terrible cosmic adumbrations when the horror is finally extirpated, will repay one for wading through the very gradual action and plethora of Scottish dialect.

He lowered his hand again, watching the dance of the phase-portraits and the grand proces­sions of the adumbrations through slitted eyes.

The description of the black forest with the evil stone, and of the terrible cosmic adumbrations when the horror is finally extirpated, will repay one for wading through the very gradual action and plethora of Scottish dialect.

How was it that he had not been able to refrain from telling her of adumbrations heretofore locked in the closest strongholds of his mind?

Images and events, be they a catch phrase, a murdered child's name, even a plot twist, echo across the centuries, as do subtler adumbrations of character, in a psychotic tramp's sufferings and, more significantly, in the duality of Dyer/Hawksmoor.

And I saw that the strange adumbration moved ever behind the shadow of Avyctes, falling horrible and unbroken on the steps and passing clearly separate and distinct amid the long umbrages of the towering monsters.