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What is an adumbration?

What is an adumbration? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete, art) Shading.
  2. A faint sketch; an outline, a brief representation.
  3. (figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation of something.
  4. (heraldry) The shadow or outline of a figure.
  5. (literature) A vague indication of what is to come.
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However, the soul evidently gave a form to this adumbration from the very beginning of things.
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.
Every nerve centre must be prepared to express any adumbration of plasticity.
What's deemed strange about him is the adumbration — few actors are able to hint like him.
But Sanjay seems today like an adumbration, rather than the acme, of authoritarian possibilities in India.

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