If it be true, that there is a Firſt Being who has drawn or created all the reſt from nothing, man is truly his image; [...]. But an image, is but an image ſtill, and can be but an adumbration or ſhadow of the true perfect Being.
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Adumbration
//ˌædʌmˈbɹeɪʃ(ə)n//
Synonyms for "adumbration" (27 found)
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Related words (13)
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51 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- αποσκίασμα noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
Bulgarian
1 entries- скица noun (faint sketch; brief representation, outline)
Danish
1 entries- forbildning noun (rough or symbolic representation)
Dutch
4 entries- aanduiding noun (vague indication of what is to come — see also foreshadowing)
- afschaduwing noun (rough or symbolic representation)
- afschetsing noun (rough or symbolic representation)
- beschaduwing noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
French
2 entries- ébauche noun (rough or symbolic representation)
- ébauchement noun (rough or symbolic representation)
German
4 entries- Abbild noun (rough or symbolic representation)
- Abbild noun (form of an object as seen by an observer)
- Abriss noun (rough or symbolic representation)
- Abschattung noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
Irish
1 entries- sgandidheacht noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
Italian
4 entries- abbozzo noun (faint sketch; brief representation, outline)
- adombramento noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
- adombrazione noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
- schizzo noun (faint sketch; brief representation, outline)
Latin
1 entries- adumbrātiō noun (faint sketch; brief representation, outline)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sgailainachadh noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- sjȅna noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
- sȅna noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
- се̏на noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
- сје̏на noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
Spanish
4 entries- adumbracion noun (faint sketch; brief representation, outline)
- boceto noun (faint sketch; brief representation, outline)
- bosquejo noun (faint sketch; brief representation, outline)
- croquis noun (faint sketch; brief representation, outline)
Welsh
4 entries- arolo noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
- brasluniad noun (rough or symbolic representation)
- dargysgodiad noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
- dygysgodiad noun (state of being in shadow or shade)
Sample sentences
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[O]ne of these, [...] seems to have felt some irritation at the obscurity of certain terms not well understood, being in the Latin, or the Greek language, or derived from thence; so that not being able to get at the root, he could not comprehend the stem of the tree; nor enjoy the adumbration of the branches and foliage.
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And grief from my ma's passing was still with me; such things, like shadows, never leave; they just seem to fade for a time, only to return later. So to the sea I would go, and to New Providence, in a vain attempt to outdistance my own adumbration.
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There is another Difference of Sounds, which wee call Exteriour, and Interiour. [...] Wee ſhall therefore enumerate them, rather than preciſely diſtinguiſh them; Though (to make ſome Adumbration of that wee meane) the Interiour is rather an Impulſion or Contuſion of the Aire, than an Eliſion or Section of the ſame.
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