adumbration

How To Use adumbration In A Sentence

• In ways the hee-hee council was an adumbration of the councils of primitive man, and of the great national assemblies and international conventions of latter-day man. CHAPTER XIV
• [Footnote 1: This evidently referred to the "adumbration" of Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
• Because of the Fourth Symphony, writers tend to view the Prélude and Fugue as an adumbration, rather than as something aesthetically complete in its own right.
• So the first takeaway is that the US government might think the legal situation sufficiently plain that it needs no adumbration. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference
• This is a pleasant picture of the great writer's domestic life, and it gives also a faint 'adumbration' of what is now forgotten: the intense curiosity and eager anticipation that was abroad as to what he was doing or preparing. John Forster
• I think it will entertain you when it appears in November -- and perhaps interest -- by the adumbration of the line I mean to take if ever that "Romanes" Lecture at Oxford comes off. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
• The predominance of death in the novel is a prophetic adumbration of the real death which will bring the characters to God's love, and Eleanor is granted a vision of this when she meets Leopolda the Catholic nun on the night of the storm.
• Apparently from the very first episode of "Work of Art," clues to the identity of the eventual winner were baked into the show -- a kind of adumbration that is in fact seeded throughout all reality shows by their canny, all-knowing producers. ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial
• The legitimacy is not in question, but the adumbration, or foreshadowing, is.
• A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning. Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North