adumbration
Example Sentences
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I had distinct memories of my life before my father became sick, but the person I was seemed like a rose-coloured adumbration of my present self.
From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2018
The overwhelming majority of the 533 ideas in Works never went further than adumbration and collection in this strangely interminable little book.
From Slate • Jul. 9, 2014
Obviously, Mr. Edwards had come down to meet friends and, by adumbration of his old authority, facilitate their passage through the customs shed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The book is a thinly disguised, none too complimentary adumbration of Dictator Mussolini.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her faint adumbration of doubt inspired in him an emotion of fiery protectiveness.
From Command by McFee, William
