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adumbration n

(uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow. (countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline. (specifically, heraldry) The outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field. (countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing. (countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.

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