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What is an adumbration?

What is an adumbration? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete, art) Shading.
  2. A faint sketch; an outline, a brief representation.
  3. (figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation of something.
  4. (heraldry) The shadow or outline of a figure.
  5. (literature) A vague indication of what is to come.
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But Sanjay seems today like an adumbration, rather than the acme, of authoritarian possibilities in India.
Men never move to the adumbration of general right until the conquest of political rights has been proved inadequate.
What's deemed strange about him is the adumbration — few actors are able to hint like him.
But an image is but an image still, and can be but an adumbration or shadow of the true Perfect Being.
And is not this a fresh instalment, or a precursory adumbration, of that Truth into which the Paraclete should lead?
The seven laws of which he speaks represent, in turn, a rabbinic adumbration of the biblical prohibition against eating meat with blood in it.

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