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Definition of inscape in English: inscapenoun ˈɪnskeɪpˈinˌskāp literary The unique inner nature of a person or object as shown in a work of art, especially a poem. Example sentencesExamples - If Billie Holiday tends to root us to one spot, (the place from which her painful joy issues forth into the world), Yannatou carries us on a voyage into different musical dialects with varied textures and inscapes.
- Hopkins, committed essentialist, sees repetition as a way of fixing or catching an inscape, the ‘thisness’ of a thing or situation.
- What are the interrelations between inscapes and actual sites?
- She was clearly one of those solitary temperaments whose earliest companions were things, whose inscapes spoke to her soul.
- Seasonal landscapes and are linked to human inscapes.
Origin Mid 19th century (originally in the poetic theory of Gerard Manley Hopkins): perhaps from in-2 'within' + -scape. Definition of inscape in US English: inscapenounˈinˌskāp literary The unique inner nature of a person or object as shown in a work of art, especially a poem. Example sentencesExamples - Hopkins, committed essentialist, sees repetition as a way of fixing or catching an inscape, the ‘thisness’ of a thing or situation.
- Seasonal landscapes and are linked to human inscapes.
- What are the interrelations between inscapes and actual sites?
- She was clearly one of those solitary temperaments whose earliest companions were things, whose inscapes spoke to her soul.
- If Billie Holiday tends to root us to one spot, (the place from which her painful joy issues forth into the world), Yannatou carries us on a voyage into different musical dialects with varied textures and inscapes.
Origin Mid 19th century (originally in the poetic theory of Gerard Manley Hopkins): perhaps from in- ‘within’ + -scape. |