Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foreshadowing; adumbration.
- noun In heraldry, same as
adumbration .
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If you contemplate the temporal wonders which God was pleased to work in favour of the Jewish nation, you will discover every where in them an ad - umbration of the spiritual blessings which the dealh of Jesus Christ was to procure for the church.
Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague Sutcliffe, Joseph, 1762-1856, tr 1812
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