adumber
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[edit]Verb
[edit]adumber (third-person singular simple present adumbers, present participle adumbering, simple past and past participle adumbered)
- (rare, archaic, transitive) To overshadow or to obscure.
- 1596, Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune[1], page 9:
- Then on I rode, and riding through a dale / Hell-like adumbred with a duskie gloome, / A suddaine fatall blast did me assaile
- 1609, John Davies, The Holy Roode, Or Christs Crosse: Containing Christ Crucified, described in Speaking-picture[2]:
- Serene thy Woe-adumbred Front, sweet Saint; / Let Ioy transluce thy Beauties blandishment
- 1844, The Spirit of the Nation, 2nd edition, page 23:
- Do the lights and the shade that illume and adumber / Each beautiful page in the Nation’s First Number.