The statement of the witness was simply an adumbration. From LearnThat.org.
I've always wanted to use adumbration in a sentence. From Wordnik.com. [October 15th, 2009] Reference
Mythology is the adumbration of philosphic verities. From Wordnik.com. [Seers hid the Mysteries in symbolic stories] Reference
` The novel operates like a reverse adumbration of the prologue. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
Matson.breached adumbration awakens ramble souls networking unachievable. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » DiRita’s Non-Denial] Reference
This triumph over death is an adumbration of our own entrance into eternal life. From Wordnik.com. [Did Jesus really rise from the dead?] Reference
The character of the patriarch Jacob is an adumbration of that of his descendants. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
It enters the sphere of supernatural faith, and becomes the adumbration of our home in heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
For, the adumbration, though fits with Puranic delineations, robs her of the Upanishadic antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Uma, the enigma] Reference
Then, with crushing strides, behind the adumbration a great sled, a titan figure gathered substance in the clouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
More important is the adumbration of the Obama administration, signaling that they are no longer in the castration mode. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Consequences Of Europe's Demise] Reference
What was subconscious became conscious, what, back in the past, was a mere adumbration gloried out in Aurora splendours. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
In many ways, Aristotle's ethics provides the form for the adumbration of the ethical teaching of the Hellenistic schools. From Wordnik.com. [Stoicism] Reference
So the first takeaway is that the US government might think the legal situation sufficiently plain that it needs no adumbration. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference] Reference
"You were right," said Ling Hop, cryptically, feeling that he was called upon to say something, but still with that faint adumbration of the inevitable letter. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Only a lunatic sought injustices to paint or rectify, but if one alleviated the suffering that came before him and his adumbration, his life would have true worth. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
The wall is a most miraculous adumbration of green. From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
Every nerve centre must be prepared to express any adumbration of plasticity. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference
There is no explanation, for instance, in calling beauty an adumbration of divine attributes. From Wordnik.com. [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference
It is at no time severed from reality; it is never its mere adumbration, nor are its contents mere phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher] Reference
Even the most advanced among us have, as yet, little more than the faintest adumbration of what this place is. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science] Reference
A third possible course was the closing of all continental ports against England, an adumbration of the Continental. From Wordnik.com. [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference
This obedience of the Virgilian hero to the heavenly will, was already an adumbration of the humility of the future. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Augustin] Reference
Men never move to the adumbration of general right until the conquest of political rights has been proved inadequate. From Wordnik.com. [Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham] Reference
I never said anything so idiotic as that the effect isn't helped by an appeal to the eye and an adumbration of the whereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [Picture and Text 1893] Reference
Lastly, Abraham was rewarded by being made a faint adumbration, for all time, of the yet more wondrous and awful love of the divine. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference
Had this been attempted it must have led to an adumbration of the coming tragic conflict, -- which is what Schiller wished to avoid. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
She would give things to the girls -- he had a private adumbration of that; expensive Parisian, perhaps not perfectly useful, things. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
This varies immensely in degree, from its first adumbration in the animal to its intense development in the Great Masters of Spiritual Science. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science] Reference
Thus all ends romantically and we have no adumbration of that later scene of the year 1499, when Perkin Warbeck was drawn and quartered at Tyburn. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
Other enthusiasms will fatten; but the wonderful Gothic adumbration of Christianity was born in the North and has never been healthy anywhere else. From Wordnik.com. [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference
It seemed to Lothair that nothing could interest him in life that was not symbolical of divine truths and an adumbration of the celestial hereafter. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
Him and trust Him, in a union so close, and with a communication of life so real, that every other union which we know is but a faint and far-off adumbration of it. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference
In ways the hee-hee council was an adumbration of the councils of primitive man, and of the great national assemblies and international conventions of latter-day man. From Wordnik.com. [Before Adam] Reference
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