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adumbration
noun as in emblem
noun as in figure of speech
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- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
noun as in hint
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noun as in indication
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noun as in representation
noun as in revelation
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noun as in shade
noun as in shadow
noun as in sketch
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Example Sentences
But Sanjay seems today like an adumbration, rather than the acme, of authoritarian possibilities in India.
She would give things to the girls—he had a private adumbration of that; expensive Parisian, perhaps not perfectly useful, things.
What was subconscious became conscious, what, back in the past, was a mere adumbration gloried out in Aurora splendours.
There seems to be little adumbration of the dark marginal lines of asper in populations from the lower Mississippi River drainage.
However, the soul evidently gave a form to this adumbration from the very beginning of things.
Our present life, in which we are not united with the divinity, is only a trace or adumbration of real life.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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