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Definition of Adumbrating
1. adumbrate [v] - See also: adumbrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adumbrating
Literary usage of Adumbrating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Testament Prophecy by Andrew Bruce Davidson, James Alexander Paterson (1904)
"One wonders what those terms ' adumbrating' and ' foreshadowing' really mean, if
there be no connection of resemblance between the umbra or shadow, ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"Shoreham schools, wherein something adumbrating my scheme of affiliation exists,
that the tone of public opinion amongst the boys, and the nature of their ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1905)
"graphs and not a few of the later etchings he gives us only a few brilliant
scratches just sufficiently adumbrating a scene in Venice or a blacksmith's ..."
4. Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray--Carlyle--George Eliot--Matthew Arnold by William Crary Brownell (1901)
"... incident of the secret panel in " Daniel Deronda," which when moved disclosed
the dead face adumbrating the tragedy of ..."
5. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... had been trying to say before him, in the sense of adapting classical precepts
to English: and , far more interesting as adumbrating, beforehand, ..."
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