Adumbrant

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth. archaic

Etymology

An adaptation of adumbrant-, the oblique stem of the Latin adumbrāns, the present active participle of adumbrō (“I cast a shadow upon”).

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