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Meanings of adumbration in English
Spanish
prefiguración The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand.
Synonyms
Examples for "foreshadowing"
Examples for "foreshadowing"
1
The high school junior also made a post possibly foreshadowing his actions.
2
The war on the clergy, foreshadowing the separation of Church and State.
3
Thirdly, there was the foreshadowing of the Passion at the last supper.
4
I think that was the earliest foreshadowing of my career blending wine.
5
The removal was silent and swift, foreshadowing Dennis Muilenburg's ouster this week.
1
For us it is an intended prefiguration of the great work of Jesus Christ.
2
Here we seem to have the story of Job over again, in this prefiguration of the future.
3
That which makes the union of the sexes something almost divine is that it is the prefiguration, the symbol, of the union of souls.
4
The several prefigurations are not difficult to make out.
5
"This prefiguration of the Word by Noah is certainly curious," remarked Durtal.
Usage of adumbration in English
1
But all this, a strange adumbration of a still unknown Rumania, lay far ahead.
2
Right there the last faint adumbration of responsibility ends and complete mental aberration begins.
3
Barbara says that this figurative, allusive adumbration of Jaffery's love affair is pure nonsense.
4
Everything is ours in this scene-orchestration ,vocalization ,dramatization ,characterization ,gesticulation ,auditoryinflammation, cacophonation, demoralization, adumbration.
5
It enters the sphere of supernatural faith, and becomes the adumbration of our home in heaven.
6
The former is the adumbration of the latter.
7
In our theatres the pantomime, which was originally an adumbration of human life, has become degraded.
8
Of the political ideas which the world associates with 'Don Carlos' there is here no adumbration.
9
The character of the patriarch Jacob is an adumbration of that of his descendants (xii.
10
However, with each cycle of brightening and adumbration, Osserc believed he was coming to discern a disturbing pattern.
11
Is the adumbration of God's Face.
12
This obedience of the Virgilian hero to the heavenly will, was already an adumbration of the humility of the future
13
Our Alabama contemporary is but an anile echo of the New York Tribune, a faint adumbration of the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
14
But an image is but an image still, and can be but an adumbration or shadow of the true Perfect Being.
15
Somehow this recalled his flare, his adumbration of some great idea connected with young Arkwright and the old Captain, and the South.
16
In those light vanishing curves her womanhood was more suggested than defined; it dawned on him in tender adumbration rather than in light.
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Adumbration through the time