adumbration
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- prefiguration: the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
- a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation
- (adumbrate) sketch: describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"
- (adumbrate) intimate: give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife"
- Foreshadowing is a literary technique used by many different authors to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later on in the story. It is a literary device in which an author drops hints about the plot and what may come in the near future. ...
- (adumbrate) To foreshadow vaguely; To give a vague outline; To obscure or overshadow
- (adumbrated) Obscured; Foreshadowed; Depicted on a shield as an outline instead of as a solid figure
- (adumbrate) v. - shadow forth; outline; sketch out. adumbrative, adj. adumbration, n.
- (adumbrate) (v) to foretell, foreshadow, or prophesy vaguely
- (adumbrated) a partial disclosure, a sketchy outline, to provide only the main facts and not the details about something, particularly something that will happen in the future
- (Ad-um-bra'-tion) A figure on a coat of arms traced in outline only, or painted in a darker shade of the same color as the field on which it is represented. ...
- 1. a faint sketch or outline 2. foreshadowing; advance indication 3. overshadowing