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What is the noun for adumbration?

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adumbration
  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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  7. Examples:
    1. “Every nerve centre must be prepared to express any adumbration of plasticity.”
      “The legitimacy is not in question, but the adumbration, or foreshadowing, is.”
      “But Sanjay seems today like an adumbration, rather than the acme, of authoritarian possibilities in India.”
adumbrations
  1. plural of adumbration
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They don't need shadow-blinds like high-strung thoroughbreds for fear their adumbrations will scare them.”
      “To begin with, he sets the story up beautifully, the first third of the novel whispering about things to come in quiet adumbrations.”
      “Parham deserves our thanks for his careful analysis of the many interesting adumbrations to be found in Hopkins' work.”
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