adumbration
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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
The book is a thinly disguised, none too complimentary adumbration of Dictator Mussolini.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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In the same letter, there is an adumbration of his grandest experiment, when he speaks of the flash from two of his jars as "our mimic lightning."
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce