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What does adumbrate mean?

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Verb
  1. To foreshadow vaguely.
  2. To give a vague outline.
  3. To obscure or overshadow.
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However, Greenblatt's impressive scholarship and brilliantly captivating instances of literary wit adumbrate his research's possible flaws.
One could adumbrate triumph or disaster by the effort, sustained or otherwise, made by them.
Feeble is human speech to deal with such high matters, serving, at the best, but dimly to adumbrate ineffable truths.
But it is now time to state, or rather faintly to adumbrate, the grand assumption of this singular work.
A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.
In this way, the Kabbalists of Galilee, through a cosmological myth of exile and redemption, were able to map a people's shattered experience and adumbrate a vision of restoration.

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