Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of adumbrate
comparative more adumbrated · superlative most adumbrated
- comparableObscured.
We shall, therefore, only very humbly submit whether the whole statement be not rather too theoretic and somewhat too darkly adumbrated in ambiguous phraseology for plain, uncollegian understandings.
1826, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Perpetuity of Christian Baptism Maintained, page 43 - comparableForeshadowed.
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adumbrated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adumbrated
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