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Word Meanings - ADUMBRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor. 2. To overshadow; to shade.

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  • FORESHADOW
    To shadow or typi Dryden.
  • ADUMBRATE
    1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor. 2. To overshadow; to shade.
  • PREFIGUREMENT
    The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.
  • FORESHOW
    To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.
  • TYPIFY
    To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance. Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness. Sir T. Browne. (more info) Etym:
  • PREFIGURE
    To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South. (more info) praefiguratum; prae before + figurare to figure. See Figure, and cf.
  • FORESHOWER
    One who predicts.
  • PRETYPIFY
    To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type. Bp. Pearson.

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