0 the act of giving the main facts and not the details about something, or something that gives these main facts:
She believes that religions are all adumbrations of a truth.
His maiden speech is a mere adumbration of his next speech on the same question.
These adumbrations on the contents of last week's Spectator are fascinating.
Being the correlate of an act of synthesis on my part, the intentional object is no longer bound to any particular spatio-temporal adumbration.
Once an utterance is classified as a discovery statement, its private adumbration constitutes a hermeneutic problem.
That was the adumbration of an extension of the same principle to the main line railway companies.
Let us have the figures, exactly and precisely, and no ancillary adumbrations.
Even that vague adumbration of peace aims has aroused wrath.
