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Definition of Adumbrative
1. Adjective. Indistinctly prophetic.
Similar to: Prophetic, Prophetical
Derivative terms: Prefigure
Definition of Adumbrative
1. a. Faintly representing; typical.
Definition of Adumbrative
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to adumbration ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adumbrative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adumbrative
Literary usage of Adumbrative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Sketches of Notable Persons and Events in the Reigns of James I by Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Carlyle (1898)
"adumbrative, as indeed all ceremony is, of men's worship for heroes or even for
the cloaks of heroes; but, alas, in how helpless a manner! ..."
2. A practical commentary on the Gospel according to st. Mark by James Morison (1882)
"Hit hunger too was the occasion that gave shape to Hit adumbrative action, when
He went to the leafy tree to ..."
3. The Ecclesiastical Observer by David King (1873)
"Much in the history of that city and people will, therefore, be found in a senso
typical —adumbrative—of the fates and fortunes of the spiritual Jerusalem, ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"We claim to stand there, as mute monuments, pathetically adumbrative of much.
— From bench and gallery comes " repeated applause;" for what august Senator ..."
5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"'Bob Monopoly, the late 'was much blamed on this account; and John the
Carter' 'Tallyman'(adumbrative for Walpole, late Prime Minister I ..."
6. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"Bob Monopoly, the late Tallyman " (adumbrative for Walpole, late Prime Minister), "
was much blamed on this account; and John the Carter " (John Lord ..."
7. Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray--Carlyle--George Eliot--Matthew Arnold by William Crary Brownell (1901)
"If an incident is imminent he defers it; if it is far in the future he puzzles
you with adumbrative hints of it; ..."
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