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ADUMBRATION
adumbration
(noun) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation
prefiguration, foreshadowing, adumbration
(noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
adumbration (countable and uncountable, plural adumbrations)
(uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
Synonyms: shading, shadowing
(countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
(specifically, heraldry) The outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
(countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
(countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.
Usage notes
Sense 4 is particularly associated with the work of the German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859–1938).
Source: Wiktionary
Ad`um*bra"tion, n. Etym: [L. adumbratio.]
1. The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
2. A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.
3. (Her.)
Definition: The shadow or outlines of a figure.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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