adumbrative

It is precisely this distinction between encircled China and the rest of the world in which both full and the traditional present make their first adumbrative appearance.

Not wanting to alarm his or her readers unduly with these worrying adumbrative reminders of May 1871, however, Walker again offers reassurance, though not without a touch of characteristic irony accompanied by an oblique, but unmistakable, reference to the recent past:

"Self-defense" seemingly becomes too adumbrative a concept to meet even liberal interpretations of Article 9 under these measures.