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Meaning of adumbro | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
[aˈdʊm.broː]

Definitions

  1. to bring a shadow over something, cast a shadow on, shade or overshadow something, cover, screen
    conjugation-1
  2. to represent an object with light and shade, shade
    conjugation-1, especially
  3. to represent something only in outline, sketch in shadow, silhouette, outline, sketch
    conjugation-1, especially
  4. to imitate, copy, counterfeit
    conjugation-1
  5. to foreshadow
    conjugation-1

Examples

“Qua re nolite existimare me ipsum, qui non heroum veteres casus fictosque luctus velim imitari atque adumbrare dicendo neque actor sim alienae personae […]”

Do not therefore imagine that I, who had no desire to imitate or represent the calamities or fictitious sorrows of the heroes of antiquity in my speech, and was no actor of a foreign and personated part […]

“Credendo enim et sperando in Deum liberatore et protettore, sensim accedebant ad Deum, seque disponebant ad Dei gratia et amicitiam, praesertim accedente fide Christ, qui per Cyrum hic adumbrabratur.”

For which is to be believed and hoped [for] in the liberator and protector of God, the sense was acceding unto God, and themselves were disposing unto the grace and friendship of God, particularly acceding unto the faith of Christ, Who through this Cyrus was being foreshadowed.

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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