† umˈbration Obs. rare.
[ad. L. type *umbrātio, f. umbrāre: see umbrate v. So It. ombrazione.]
1. Her. A faintly outlined figure; = adumbration 4.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. c viij, Another sampull is sene of the vmbracion of a certayn cros, and thys cros is calde a cros floree vmbratid;..bot truly spekyng and propurli it is no cros, bott a shadow of such a cros. |
2. A shadowy indication or faint representation (of something).
| a 1706 Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 192 Which, though resembling, are yet but faint shadows and umbrations of that sublime nature. Ibid. 241 Nor all this by transient and superficial knowledge, figures, and umbrations, but immediate and intuitive notices. |