ADUMBRATION Definition & Meaning

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adumbration

[ ad-uhm-brey-shuhn ]

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noun

a shadow or faint image of something:
In the south, where the Tibetan plateau begins its gradual rise, we can just glimpse the hazy adumbration of its mountains above the undulating horizon.
a foreshadowing of or precursor to something:
Beethoven鈥檚 Choral Fantasy of 1808 serves in every way as an adumbration of the Ninth Symphony.
The essay is a fascinating adumbration of an idea that would become the author鈥檚 obsession six months later.
concealment or overshadowing:
The haunting tune reflects the sad adumbration of the heroine鈥檚 emotional priorities as she rejects her prospective lover.

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榶心vlog History and Origins

Origin of adumbration¹

First recorded in 1530鈥�1540; adumbrat(e) ( def ) + -ion ( def )

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The New York Times called it 鈥渁n unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and 鈥楶eyton Place鈥� adumbrations in which five women are involved with their assorted egotistical aspirations, love affairs and Seconal pills.鈥�

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I had distinct memories of my life before my father became sick, but the person I was seemed like a rose-coloured adumbration of my present self.

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鈥淚t鈥檚 an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and 鈥楶eyton Place鈥� adumbrations in which five women are involved with their assorted egotistical aspirations, love affairs and Seconal pills,鈥� he wrote.

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On the evolutionist interpretation this is an adumbration of the actual genealogical tree or Stammbaum.

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Here has been seen an adumbration of natural selection: he himself admits the difficulty he has in making it clear.

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