Hypertext Webster Gateway: "adumbration"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Adumbration \Ad`um*bra"tion\, n. [L. adumbratio.]
1. The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
2. A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or
representation of a thing.
Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. --Bp. Horsley.
3. (Her.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
adumbration
n 1: a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or
theory [syn: {outline}, {synopsis}, {abstract}, {precis}]
2: providing vague advance indications [syn: {prefiguration}, {foreshadowing}]
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