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adumbrant en · ADJ

Etymology

An adaptation of adumbrant-, the oblique stem of the Latin adumbrāns, the present active participle of adumbrō (“to cast a shadow upon”).

Meanings

1. (archaic) Giving a faint shadow, slight resemblance, or foreboding. By extension, faint or slight.
   • I cherished only an adumbrant idea of the real intent of the meaning of the artist's design 1864, Lydia M. Millard, Nepenthe:A Novel:
   • bring that centre - the Ego - into even an adumbrant existence 1888, Louis Pope Gratacap, The Analytics of a Belief in a Future Life:
   • the deep hollows of the adumbrant seas 1888, Charles Martin Newell, The Isle of Palms:

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Relateds

adumbrate · adumbrance