adumbration

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌædʌmˈbɹeɪʃ(ə)n/

名詞

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(uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow. / (countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.

日本語の意味

（不可算）影や陰影の状態 / （可算）影、シルエット / （可算）かすかな概略、輪郭、下書き

英語の意味

(uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow. / (countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.

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A sudden adumbration from the overhanging trees cooled the courtyard and sent the guests searching for shade.

覆いかぶさる木々の影が突然濃くなり、中庭が涼しくなって客たちは日陰を探した。

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意味（1）

(uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.

If it be true, that there is a Firſt Being who has drawn or created all the reſt from nothing, man is truly his image; …. But an image, is but an image ſtill, and can be but an adumbration or ſhadow of the true perfect Being.

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意味（2）

(countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.

意味（3）

(specifically, heraldry) The outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.

ADUMBRATION, [in Heraldry] an abſolute taking away of the Charge or Thing born, ſo that nothing of it remains but the bare Proportion of the out Lines.]

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意味（4）

(countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.

[W]here there is an obſcurity too deep for our Reaſon, 'tis good to ſit down with a deſcription, periphraſis, or adumbration; for by acquainting our reaſon how unable it is to diſplay the viſible and obvious effects of nature, it becomes more humble and ſubmiſſive unto the ſubtilties of faith: …

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意味（5）

(countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.

Of necessity a physical thing can be given only one-sidedly; and that signifies, not just incompletely or imperfectly in some sense or other, but precisely what presentation by adumbrations prescribes.

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adumbrations （ plural ）