How To Use Adumbration In A Sentence
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It was clear to a mind so acute as Bruno's that the dogmas of the Church were correlated to a view of the world which had been superseded; and he drew the logical inference that they were at bottom but poetical and popular adumbrations of the Deity in terms concordant with erroneous physical notions.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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I've always wanted to use adumbration in a sentence.
October 15th, 2009
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We have remarked on Hahn's adumbrations of this movement in an earlier one, but one senses a disconnect between the end of the ‘Gigue’ and the beginning of the ‘Ciaccona.’
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What was subconscious became conscious, what, back in the past, was a mere adumbration gloried out in Aurora splendours.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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John watched the way she moved and the way the fire light played against her warm colored skin, highlighting through the refined weave in the gown she wore and the adumbration beneath the veil.
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This clinamen was designed to temper the basic determinism of physics by an element of inde - terminism; and as a suggestion in physics it was a remarkable adumbration of indeterminacies in the physics of our day.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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In ways the hee-hee council was an adumbration of the councils of primitive man, and of the great national assemblies and international conventions of latter-day man.
CHAPTER XIV
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This clinamen was designed to temper the basic determinism of physics by an element of inde - terminism; and as a suggestion in physics it was a remarkable adumbration of indeterminacies in the physics of our day.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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She seemed, of a sudden, as she leaned heavily on his arm, a presaging apparition out of the dim future, an adumbration of her own body grown frail and old, looking up to him for help, calling forlornly to him for solace.
Phantom Wires A Novel
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A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning.
Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
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He was as splendid a brute — an adumbration of the splendid human conquerors and rulers, higher on the ladder of evolution, who have appeared in other times and places.
CHAPTER X
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Comprehensive used for park, fencing wall, bridge, edifice, floor body adumbration, step street air corridor, ad brand and so on, city bright change the first choice of construction product.
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In ways the hee-hee council was an adumbration of the councils of primitive man, and of the great national assemblies and international conventions of latter-day man.
CHAPTER XIV
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His theory has something in common with current philosophical speculation, and it is in part, as I understand, a kind of adumbration, a shrewd guess, at the present attitude of cytologists.
Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians
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A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning.
Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
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The legitimacy is not in question, but the adumbration, or foreshadowing, is.
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Apparently from the very first episode of "Work of Art," clues to the identity of the eventual winner were baked into the show -- a kind of adumbration that is in fact seeded throughout all reality shows by their canny, all-knowing producers.
ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial
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The predominance of death in the novel is a prophetic adumbration of the real death which will bring the characters to God's love, and Eleanor is granted a vision of this when she meets Leopolda the Catholic nun on the night of the storm.
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I think it will entertain you when it appears in November -- and perhaps interest -- by the adumbration of the line I mean to take if ever that "Romanes" Lecture at Oxford comes off.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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This is a pleasant picture of the great writer's domestic life, and it gives also a faint 'adumbration' of what is now forgotten: the intense curiosity and eager anticipation that was abroad as to what he was doing or preparing.
John Forster
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So the first takeaway is that the US government might think the legal situation sufficiently plain that it needs no adumbration.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference
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Because of the Fourth Symphony, writers tend to view the Prélude and Fugue as an adumbration, rather than as something aesthetically complete in its own right.
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[Footnote 1: This evidently referred to the "adumbration" of
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
