adumbration
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2018
The overwhelming majority of the 533 ideas in Works never went further than adumbration and collection in this strangely interminable little book.
From Slate • Jul. 9, 2014
Obviously, Mr. Edwards had come down to meet friends and, by adumbration of his old authority, facilitate their passage through the customs shed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The book is a thinly disguised, none too complimentary adumbration of Dictator Mussolini.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I am afraid that incautious observation was the nuance of the shadow of an intimation of an opinion, bearing the faintest adumbration of a prediction: I am sorry for it.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth