Crossword clues for adumbration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adumbration \Ad`um*bra"tion\, n. [L. adumbratio.]
The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
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A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.
Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth.
--Bp. Horsley. (Her.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Latin adumbrationem (nominative adumbratio) "a sketch in shadow, sketch, outline," noun of action from past participle stem of adumbrare "to cast a shadow, overshadow, represent (a thing) in outline," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + umbrare "to cast in shadow," from PIE *andho- "blind, dark" (see umbrage).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete arts English) shading. 2 A faint sketch; an outline, a brief representation. 3 (context figuratively English) A rough or symbolic representation of something. 4 (context heraldry English) The shadow or outline of a figure. 5 (context literature English) A vague indication of what is to come.
WordNet
n. the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand [syn: prefiguration, foreshadowing]
a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation
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.