word-paintingadj.
/ˈwəːdˌpeɪntɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwərdˌpeɪn(t)ɪŋ/ rare.
That describes something vividly in words. Cf. word-paint v.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [adjective] > describing vividly
word-painting1795
picturing1799
1795 T. Cole Life Hubert i. 34 The Mantuan Epic Bard, who still excites, By his most just, correct, word-painting art.
1882 Archaeologia Cantiana 14 3 The descriptive power of a word-painting historian.
1950 Thought 25 314 There is an informative study of [Gerard Manley] Hopkins as a word-painting poet in the epithetizing tradition of Keats and Milton.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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