单词 | importraiture |
释义 | † 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. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [noun] 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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