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Example sentences for "adumbration"

Lexicographically close words:
adulterous; adultery; adulthood; adults; adumbrated; adumbrations; adunque; aduocate; adust; aduyse
  1. The former is the adumbration of the latter.

  2. It enters the sphere of supernatural faith, and becomes the adumbration of our home in heaven.

  3. Our Alabama contemporary is but an anile echo of the New York Tribune, a faint adumbration of the Chicago Inter-Ocean.

  4. And thus it is that many do not worship at his shrine as at the shrine of Raphael, for they see the adumbration of a paganism long since dead, but revived by a miracle for a brief Botticellian hour.

  5. The wall is a most miraculous adumbration of green.

  6. However, the soul evidently gave a form to this adumbration from the very beginning of things.

  7. The so-called primary "being" must possess an existence which is more than an adumbration of existence, and which is complete existence.

  8. Instead of possessing Reason itself, the Soul would possess only an adumbration of Reason; the Soul would not know Intelligence, and would not be able to think.

  9. 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.

  10. And those of maturer years, or of more meditative temperament, sitting at the pantomime, can extract out of the shifting scenes meanings suitable to themselves; for the pantomime is a symbol or adumbration of human life.

  11. In our theatres the pantomime, which was originally an adumbration of human life, has become degraded.

  12. One can easily see in these discussions some adumbration of many theological or metaphysical difficulties of later times, as of the origin of evil, of freewill in man, of the relation of the created world to its Creator.

  13. The nature that has been corrupted would fain rush to brutal joys; but the purer nature looks with reverence and wonder at this beauty, for it is an adumbration of the celestial joys which he still remembers vaguely from the heavenly vision.

  14. You cannot do it; unless indeed in Isaac's Sacrifice you are content to find the adumbration of the scene on Calvary.

  15. Right there the last faint adumbration of responsibility ends and complete mental aberration begins.

  16. Surely the deeper insight of the philosopher may be allowed without the reproach of fancifulness, to see in it the adumbration of some deeper mystery!

  17. Even the most advanced among us have, as yet, little more than the faintest adumbration of what this place is.

  18. This varies immensely in degree, from its first adumbration in the animal to its intense development in the Great Masters of Spiritual Science.

  19. The adumbration in the Theocracy of the kingly office of the future Messiah, not less than of his priestly and prophetical office, was originally contemplated in its establishment; and now the full time for this had come.

  20. The Jewish Institutions and History a Perpetual Adumbration of Christ preparatory to His Advent--7.

  21. Her faint adumbration of doubt inspired in him an emotion of fiery protectiveness.

  22. It is no mere fanciful spiritualising which sees in this picture an adumbration of the merciful warfare of Christ all through the ages.

  23. A loose adumbration of this doctrine is here given by Plato as the doctrine of Protagoras, in the words--Knowledge is sensible perception.

  24. It is only the visible manifestation of beauty, which strikes with sufficient shock at once on the senses and the intellect, to recall in the mind an adumbration of the primitive Idea of Beauty.

  25. I should like, also, to risk the suggestion that to the author of Some Remarks should go the honor of the earliest adumbration of the "Hamlet problem.

  26. This little unpretentious book gathers into itself, either in faint adumbration or in fairly advanced form, the tendencies in method and ideas that are to remake criticism in the eighteenth century.

  27. The clue which Mr. Spencer followed was given him by the great embryologist, Karl Ernst von Baer, and an adumbration of it may perhaps be traced back through Kaspar Friedrich Wolf to Linnaeus.

  28. In the inorganic world, where there is an approach to organization there is an adumbration of the law as realized in the organic world.

  29. The reason for the decision is at once a very triumph of persuasiveness, which would be ingenious if it were not so spontaneous, and an adumbration of the very spirit of Christ's appeal for service to us.

  30. Now, if we turn to the corresponding passage in Ephesians, we find that marriage is regarded from a high and sacred point of view, as being an earthly shadow and faint adumbration of the union between Christ and the Church.


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    Other words:
    augury; echo; emblem; foreshadow; hint; indication; omen; outline; portent; prefiguration; promise; reflection; reflex; shade; shadow; sign; silhouette; token; type; umbra; umbrage