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Adumbrate   Listen
verb
Adumbrate  v. t.  
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."
2.
To overshadow; to shade.





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"Adumbrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... fierier, prouder body, sounded a more ironic and disdainful laughter, breathed a rarer air than had beat and moved and sounded and breathed in music. It made drunken with pleasant sound, with full rich harmonies, with exuberant dance and waltz movements. It seemed to adumbrate the arrival of a new sort of men, men of saner, sounder, more athletic souls and more robust and cool intelligences, a generation that was vitally satisfied, was less torn and belabored by the inexpressible longings of the romantic world, a generation very much at home on the ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld


Words linked to "Adumbrate" :   block out, intimate, hint, suggest, depict, insinuate, outline, describe, draw


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