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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



... absolutely demanded to interpret and complete the plangent rhythm of his dulcet numbers. Emotion so far predominates over intelligence, so yearns to exhale itself in sound and shun the laws of language, that we find already in Rinaldo Tasso's familiar Non so che continually used to adumbrate sentiments for which plain words are not ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds


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