Usually means: Foreshadowing or outlining something vaguely.
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  1. adumbration: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adumbration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adumbration: Collins English Dictionary
  4. adumbration: Vocabulary.com
  5. adumbration: Wordnik
  6. adumbration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. adumbration: Wiktionary
  8. Adumbration, adumbration: Dictionary.com
  9. adumbration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Adumbration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Adumbration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. adumbration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. adumbration: Rhymezone
  14. Adumbration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. adumbration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. adumbration: Free Dictionary
  17. adumbration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. adumbration: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. adumbration: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adumbration: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (adumbration)

noun:  (uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
noun:  (countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
noun:  (specifically, heraldry, rare) The supposed practice of displaying only outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
noun:  (countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.

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