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Soheil1 Posted 5 years ago
Vocabulary

Adumbrate

Hi

What does adumbrate mean in:

This type of analysis is adumbrated by another critical intellectual
with links to DRI, Alejandro Sanz de Santamaría, [...]

Also adumbrated by Benjamin were the possibility of working through this prehistory (from Marx) through a new dialectics of seeing,[...]

(from Encountering Development by Arturo Escobar)

?Thanks in advance-

  

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soheil1 What does adumbrate mean I cannot remember having ever seen this word. I would guess the meaning from the root word "umbra" which is the dark part of the shadow, contrasted with penumbra, the lighter part of a shadow. You can see these in an eclipse.

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  • soheil1 What does adumbrate mean I cannot remember having ever seen this word.
  • I would guess the meaning from the root word "umbra" which is the dark part of the shadow, contrasted with penumbra, the lighter part of a shadow.
  • You can see these in an eclipse.
  • The rarely used prefix ad- means to, toward, indicated by.
  • Look in a good dictionary and choose the meaning that best fits the sentence.
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soheil1What does adumbrate mean

I cannot remember having ever seen this word. I would guess the meaning from the root word "umbra" which is the dark part of the shadow, contrasted with penumbra, the lighter part of a shadow. You can see these in an eclipse. The rarely used prefix ad- means to, toward, indicated by.


Look in a good dictionary and

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