adumbration

• “Apparently from the very first episode of "Work of Art," clues to the identity of the eventual winner were baked into the show -- a kind of adumbration that is in fact seeded throughout all reality shows by their canny, all-knowing producers.”

  The Huffington Post: ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial

• “His theory has something in common with current philosophical speculation, and it is in part, as I understand, a kind of adumbration, a shrewd guess, at the present attitude of cytologists.”

  Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians

• “This is a pleasant picture of the great writer's domestic life, and it gives also a faint 'adumbration' of what is now forgotten: the intense curiosity and eager anticipation that was abroad as to what he was doing or preparing.”

  John Forster

• “[Footnote 1: This evidently referred to the "adumbration" of”

  Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings

• “I've always wanted to use adumbration in a sentence.”

  October 15th, 2009

• “He was as splendid a brute — an adumbration of the splendid human conquerors and rulers, higher on the ladder of evolution, who have appeared in other times and places.”

  CHAPTER X

• “So the first takeaway is that the US government might think the legal situation sufficiently plain that it needs no adumbration.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference

• “In ways the hee-hee council was an adumbration of the councils of primitive man, and of the great national assemblies and international conventions of latter-day man.”

  CHAPTER XIV

• “In ideology-critique, "reproduce" means something a whole lot more fundamental than cutting-and-pasting, Andrew, but there's a hint, a glimmering, an adumbration in your second point that restores my faith in your critical acumen.”

  OCD

• “What was subconscious became conscious, what, back in the past, was a mere adumbration gloried out in Aurora splendours.”

  The Kempton-Wace Letters

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