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What does adumbrate mean?

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Verb
  1. To foreshadow vaguely.
  2. To give a vague outline.
  3. To obscure or overshadow.
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A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.
One could adumbrate triumph or disaster by the effort, sustained or otherwise, made by them.
This is an auteur who works from deep within herself to establish a mood, adumbrate a design, build a tempo, and intimate an idea.
These titles adumbrate Wright's conclusions about the function of the rituals in different parts of the narrative.
But who tells the epic of the foetus itself, of its life in the womb, which Browne and Coleridge adumbrate?
Feeble is human speech to deal with such high matters, serving, at the best, but dimly to adumbrate ineffable truths.

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