obumbration

English

Etymology

Latin obumbratio.

Noun

obumbration (plural obumbrations)

1. The act of darkening or obscuring.
   • 1654, Peter Heylyn, Theologia Veterum:

     The miraculous obumbration of the holy Ghost , made more intelligible by two parallel cases

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “obumbration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)