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adumbration

noun
/ˌædʌmˈbɹeɪʃ(ə)n/UK/ˌædəmˈbɹeɪʃ(ə)n/US

Etymology

From Latin adumbrātiō (“sketch; outline, silhouette; pretence, semblance”) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state). Adumbrātiō is derived from adumbrāre (present active infinitive of adumbrō (“to represent an object with light and shade, to shade; to represent in outline, to outline, silhouette, sketch; to cast a shadow on, overshadow, shade; to copy, counterfeit, imitate”)) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions). Adumbrō is derived from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + umbrō (“to cast a shadow, to shade; to overshadow”) (from umbra (“shade; shadow; ghost”)).

  1. derived from adumbrātiō — “sketch; outline, silhouette; pretence, semblance”

Definitions

  1. The state of being in shadow or shade

    The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.

    • If it be true, that there is a Firſt Being who has drawn or created all the reſt from nothing, man is truly his image; [...]. But an image, is but an image ſtill, and can be but an adumbration or ſhadow of the true perfect Being.

  2. A faint sketch

    A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.

    • [V]ague and unsatisfactory would all these evidences appear, if they had not been illustrated and confirmed by that narrative, of which all other records are but faint adumbrations.

  3. A rough or symbolic representation

    A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.

    • Now, no Prieſt was ſuffered to eat the Fleſh, or drink the Blood, of this Sacrifice, becauſe it was a myſtical Adumbration of a ſpiritual Feaſt above, [...]
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    1. The form of an object as seen by an observer.

      • Of necessity a physical thing can be given only "one-sidedly;" and that signifies, not just incompletely or imperfectly in some sense or other, but precisely what presentation by adumbrations prescribes.

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Derived

adumbrationism

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA