adumbration

as inindication
as inrevelation
as inshade
as inshadow
as insketch
as inrepresentation
as inemblem
as infigure of speech
as inhint

Synonyms for adumbration

noun evidence, clue

Antonyms for adumbration

misinformation

Word Origin & History

1530s, from Latin adumbrationem (nominative adumbratio) "a sketch in shadow, sketch, outline," noun of action from past participle stem of adumbrare "to cast a shadow, overshadow, represent (a thing) in outline," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + umbrare "to cast in shadow," from PIE *andho- "blind, dark" (see umbrage).

Example Sentences for adumbration

Every nerve centre must be prepared to express any adumbration of plasticity.

An exquisite pose, girlish, fascinating, yet carrying with it an adumbration of power.

Newman was the true priest, and Froude recognized his genius and that his soul was "an adumbration of the Divine."

You cannot do it; unless indeed in Isaac's Sacrifice you are content to find the adumbration of the scene on Calvary.

We get thus far in the adumbration of Essentia that it is the subject of all predicates, but never itself a predicate.

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

But an image is but an image still, and can be but an adumbration or shadow of the true Perfect Being.

Men never move to the adumbration of general right until the conquest of political rights has been proved inadequate.

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.

adumbration

Synonyms for adumbration

Antonyms for adumbration

figure of speech

hint

hints

indication

indications

adumbration

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Antonyms for adumbration

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indication

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