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Definition of Adumbration
1. Noun. The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand.
Generic synonyms: Anticipation, Prediction, Prevision
Derivative terms: Foreshadow, Prefigure
2. Noun. A sketchy or imperfect or faint representation.
Definition of Adumbration
1. n. The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
Definition of Adumbration
1. Noun. (obsolete arts) Shading. ¹
2. Noun. A faint sketch; an outline, a brief representation. ¹
3. Noun. (figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation of something. ¹
4. Noun. (heraldry) The shadow or outline of a figure. ¹
5. Noun. (literature) A vague indication of what is to come. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adumbration
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adumbration
Literary usage of Adumbration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man's unconscious passion by Wilfrid Lay (1920)
"B. The adumbration A" peculiar and characteristic feeling marks the approach of
some ideas into consciousness. It is caused by the wish of the idea which is ..."
2. The Idle Word: Short Religious Essays Upon the Gift of Speech, and Its by Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1873)
"... we may expect—\ve are warranted by Holy Scripture* in expecting—to find some
adumbration, some dim shadowy outline, of the Nature of the Most High. ..."
3. Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals by Thomas Browne (1844)
"... where there is an obscurity too deep for our reason, 'tis good to sit down
with a description, periphrasis, or adumbration; for by acquainting our ..."
4. Religion in Greek Literature: A Sketch in Outline by Lewis Campbell (1898)
"... Aryan and Semitic elements—adumbration of the earliest phases—Preceding
civilisations—The Mycenaean age—The Aryan stock—Contact with aborigines—Foreign ..."
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