Adumbration

Quick meaning: Adumbration is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.

Meaning

(uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
2. (countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
3. (countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.

Example Sentences

[V]ague and unsatisfactory would all these evidences appear, if they had not been illustrated and confirmed by that narrative, of which all other records are but faint adumbrations.

[Zechariah] Chafee, in his landmark book Freedom of Speech, provided more than an adumbration of civil liberties for future legal scholars—he helped to define the issues and parameters of serious debate on the subject.

If it be true, that there is a Firſt Being who has drawn or created all the reſt from nothing, man is truly his image; [...]. But an image, is but an image ſtill, and can be but an adumbration or ſhadow of the true perfect Being.

For almoſt in all ſenſible Creatures, eſpecially thoſe of the more perfect kind, a certain Image or weak Adumbration of ſomething like Reaſon appears, yet we find no Creatures below Mankind any thing like Religion, or Veneration of a Deity: [...]

Word Forms

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Synonyms for adumbration

Depending on context, synonyms include shading, shadowing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shadowiness, shadow, darkness, umbrosity, shadiness, dimness.

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