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1 Adumbration -- rank: 1000

Adumbration definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary ADUMBRA'TION, n. 1. The ... of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand [syn: prefiguration, foreshadowing, adumbration] 2: a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation Merriam Webster's noun see adumbrate Webster's 1913 Dictionary Adumbration Ad`um*bra"tion, n. [L. adumbratio.] 1. The act ...

2 Prefiguration -- rank: 461

... of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand [syn: prefiguration, foreshadowing, adumbration] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 14th century 1. the act ... Norris. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Type, foreshadowing, adumbration. Moby Thesaurus actuarial prediction, adumbration, apocalypse, augury, auspice, betokening, betokenment, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshadow, foreshadowing ...

3 Shadow -- rank: 461

... Hence, horrible shadow!'' --Shak. 7. An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type. The ... obscurity, gloom, shade. 3. Shelter, cover, protection, security. 4. Image, adumbration, representation, prefiguration, foreshowing. 5. Spirit, ghost, shade, phantom. 6. Image ... conceal, hide. 5. Typify, symbolize. Moby Thesaurus Masan, adherent, adumbrate, adumbration, afterglow, afterimage, air, airy nothing, alter ego, amount, anima, anima ...

4 Adumbrate -- rank: 364

... disclose, or outline partially < adumbrate a plan > 3. overshadow, obscure • adumbration noun • adumbrative adjective • adumbratively adverb Oxford Reference Dictionary v.tr ... 2 represent in outline. 3 foreshadow, typify. 4 overshadow. Derivatives: adumbration n. adumbrative adj. Etymology: L adumbrare (as AD-, umbrare f ...

5 MEDIATION; MEDIATOR -- rank: 364

... Thus the sacrificial system in itself is but a faint adumbration of the New Testament doctrine of Christ's high-priestly ... penalty of the whole people. We have here a wonderful adumbration of the New Testament doctrine of atonement through the One ...

6 Type -- rank: 364

... emblem, mark. 2. Emblem, symbol, sign, token, shadow, image, representation, adumbration. 3. Original, model, pattern, prototype, archetype, exemplar, protoplast. 4. Stamp ... aggregate of characteristic qualities. Moby Thesaurus Platonic form, Platonic idea, adumbration, aesthetic form, affinity, alien, allegory, alphabetize, analyze, animus, antetype, antitype ...

7 Reflection -- rank: 230

... Parthian shot, RF echoes, S-curve, action and reaction, address, adumbration, adverse criticism, advisement, affirmation, albedo, allegation, animadversion, answer, apostrophe, apprehension ...

8 Outline -- rank: 230

... draft. Moby Thesaurus abbreviation, abbreviature, abrege, abridge, abridgment, abstract, adumbrate, adumbration, alphabet, article, basics, block in, block out, blueprint, border, bound ...

9 Omen -- rank: 230

... augury, foreboding, portent, auspice, sign. Moby Thesaurus actuarial prediction, adumbrate, adumbration, apocalypse, augur, augury, auspicate, auspice, betoken, betokening, betokenment, bode, boding ...

10 Job, Book of -- rank: 230

... of Job's complaint--furnishes the nearest parallel to, or adumbration of, Job's affliction; but also in the accounts of ...

11 Indication -- rank: 230

... note, index, symptom, manifestation, hint, suggestion. Moby Thesaurus Christophany, Satanophany, adumbration, angelophany, appearance, augury, auspice, avatar, basis for belief, betokening, betokenment ...

12 Hint -- rank: 230

... suggestion, insinuation, allusion, slight mention. Moby Thesaurus admonishment, admonition, adumbrate, adumbration, advert, advice, aide-memoire, alarm, allegorize, allegory, allude, allude to ...

13 Token -- rank: 230

... she gave him a clap or pox. Moby Thesaurus account, adumbration, affect, agent, allegory, alternate, alternative, analogy, annals, aroma, attribute, augur ...

14 Moses -- rank: 230

... through his face to the terror of the multitude, an adumbration of that other and more glorious transfiguration at which Moses ...

15 foreshadowing -- rank: 230

... of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand [syn: prefiguration, foreshadowing, adumbration]