Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of adumbrating or making a shadow or faint resemblance.
- noun Figuratively, a faint sketch; an imperfect representation; something that suggests by resemblance, or shadows forth; a foreshadowing.
- noun In heraldry, the shadow only of a figure, outlined, and painted of a color darker than the field.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
- noun A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.
- noun (Her.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, art
Shading . - noun A faint
sketch ; anoutline , a brief representation. - noun figuratively A rough or symbolic
representation of something. - noun heraldry The shadow or outline of a figure.
- noun literature A
vague indication of what is to come.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
- noun a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Apparently from the very first episode of "Work of Art," clues to the identity of the eventual winner were baked into the show -- a kind of adumbration that is in fact seeded throughout all reality shows by their canny, all-knowing producers.
ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial 2010
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Apparently from the very first episode of "Work of Art," clues to the identity of the eventual winner were baked into the show -- a kind of adumbration that is in fact seeded throughout all reality shows by their canny, all-knowing producers.
ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial ARTINFO 2010
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Apparently from the very first episode of "Work of Art," clues to the identity of the eventual winner were baked into the show -- a kind of adumbration that is in fact seeded throughout all reality shows by their canny, all-knowing producers.
ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial 2010
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His theory has something in common with current philosophical speculation, and it is in part, as I understand, a kind of adumbration, a shrewd guess, at the present attitude of cytologists.
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This is a pleasant picture of the great writer's domestic life, and it gives also a faint 'adumbration' of what is now forgotten: the intense curiosity and eager anticipation that was abroad as to what he was doing or preparing.
John Forster Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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[Footnote 1: This evidently referred to the "adumbration" of
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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He was as splendid a brute — an adumbration of the splendid human conquerors and rulers, higher on the ladder of evolution, who have appeared in other times and places.
CHAPTER X 2010
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So the first takeaway is that the US government might think the legal situation sufficiently plain that it needs no adumbration.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference 2010
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In ways the hee-hee council was an adumbration of the councils of primitive man, and of the great national assemblies and international conventions of latter-day man.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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I've always wanted to use adumbration in a sentence.
October 15th, 2009 m_francis 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word adumbration
I like the third meaning from the Century Dictionary: "In heraldry, the shadow only of a figure, outlined, and painted of a color darker than the field. Shadow, however, has no proper place in heraldry. It is a modern abuse."
June 2, 2010
Dan337 commented on the word adumbration
It’s peculiar that the same creepy guy from the umbrage page also appears here. (I apologize in advance on the off chance that he’s one of you creepy guys.) He’s not on the adumbrage page—I checked.
September 25, 2011
sionnach commented on the word adumbration
Damn! That guy is creepy. Do you think he might be DJ Spooky?
September 25, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word adumbration
Embarrassed, Dan slinks off into an [umbra.]
September 25, 2011
bilby commented on the word adumbration
His name's Ion. He's a dumb rat.
September 25, 2011