单词 | portrayment |
释义 | † portraymentn. Obsolete. rare. The action of portraying something (literal and figurative); a depiction or representation; = portrayal n. 1, 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [noun] picture?a1439 representingc1443 portraiturea1450 refigurationc1475 effigiation?1533 figuring1534 representation1579 picturing1585 representmentc1590 presentationa1616 portrayment?1650 iconism1656 importraiture1834 portrayal1836 rendition1959 the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > graphic or vivid pencilc1385 paintinga1400 portraiture?c1430 picturing1562 hypotyposis1570 presentment1633 portrayment?1650 scene painting1777 word painting1807 portrayal1836 pictorialism1869 ?1650 in A. P. Newton Colonising Activities Eng. Puritans (1914) iii. 95 On the one end upon a plate of silver is a portrayment of the seal of the Company, viz. three islands and the words written about it, ‘Legem ejus expectabunt’. 1802 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville in Posthumous Wks. (1826) II. 11 I hold it not meet to speak here, with greater pourtrayment, of the more solemn ceremonies in the chapel itself. 1840 Times 11 Feb. 6/5 It was merely a portrayment, on a large scale, of the national arms of France. 1891 Spectator 18 Apr. From this most graphic portrayment of the state of national feeling at the time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.?1650 |
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