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adumbration

[ ad-uhm-brey-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a shadow or faint image of something:
In the south, where the Tibetan plateau begins its gradual rise, we can just glimpse the hazy adumbration of its mountains above the undulating horizon.
a foreshadowing of or precursor to something:
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy of 1808 serves in every way as an adumbration of the Ninth Symphony.
The essay is a fascinating adumbration of an idea that would become the author’s obsession six months later.
concealment or overshadowing:
The haunting tune reflects the sad adumbration of the heroine’s emotional priorities as she rejects her prospective lover.

First recorded in 1530–1540; adumbrat(e) ( def ) + -ion ( def )

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