Adumbration

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adumbration \Ad`um*bra"tion\, n. [L. adumbratio.]
     1. The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
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     2. A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or
        representation of a thing.


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              Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. --Bp. Horsley.
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     3. (Her.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adumbration
       n 1: the act of providing vague advance indications; representing
            beforehand [syn: {prefiguration}, {foreshadowing}]
       2: a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation