† importraituren.
Obsolete.
The action of portraying a person or thing in or on something; portrayal. Also concrete: a person who, or thing which, is portrayed (as an image or in writing); a portrait, a description.
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picture?a1439
representingc1443
portraiturea1450
refigurationc1475
effigiation?1533
figuring1534
representation1579
picturing1585
representmentc1590
presentationa1616
portrayment?1650
iconism1656
importraiture1834
portrayal1836
rendition1959
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > creation or description of characters
personification1814
characterization1815
importraiture1834
1834 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 512/1 The Greek's importraiture of women, especially of the Lady Helen, is unsurpassed.
1836 Fraser's Mag. 14 9 Importraitures of passages in the external world, and in human life.
1842 Fraser's Mag. 26 455 Here..is an admirable importraiture for you.
1882 P. Robinson Noah's Ark 28 Alterations from the received importraitures of the beasts.
1885 P. Robinson Poets' Beasts i. 18 Moore diverges from his usual importraiture to call it, in one of his Fables, ‘generous lion’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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