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Grammar : Verb
Spell : lim
Phonetic Transcription : lɪm

Définition of limn

Origin :
  • early 15c., "to illuminate" (manuscripts), altered from Middle English luminen, "to illuminate manuscripts" (late 14c.), from Old French luminer "light up, illuminate," from Latin luminare "illuminate, burnish," from lumen (genitive luminis) "radiant energy, light," related to lucere "to shine" (see light (n.)). Sense of "portray, depict" first recorded 1590s. Related: Limned.
  • verb depict
Example sentences :
  • As I have sketched an ideal parlour, so would I limn a bedroom I have seen.
  • Extract from : « The Quiver, Annual Volume 10/1899 » by Various
  • No, madam; the beauty of the features the artist had set himself to limn.
  • Extract from : « The Rosery Folk » by George Manville Fenn
  • How we transpose and dislocate while we limn in aerial colours!
  • Extract from : « Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) » by John Wilson
  • It is not possible in a chapter, a book or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest.
  • Extract from : « Royal Palaces and Parks of France » by Milburg Francisco Mansfield
  • Somehow the arches and curves of its branches seemed to limn a pattern so dreadful that his heart beat faster as he gazed upon it.
  • Extract from : « The Tree of Life » by Catherine Lucille Moore
  • Samuel Ferguson, in Congal, has done little more than limn an obscure shadow of that shadow: yet it haunts the imagination.
  • Extract from : « The Washer of the Ford » by Fiona Macleod
  • There were no longer these telling situations to limn which spoke for themselves, and without straw, bricks are not to be made.
  • Extract from : « Pickwickian Manners and Customs » by Percy Fitzgerald
  • Limn thou, fantastic, free Blue sirens of the sea, And beasts of heraldry.
  • Extract from : « Enamels and Cameos and other Poems » by Thophile Gautier
  • I fear it is not possible to limn so many persons in so small a tablet as the compass of our plays afford.
  • Extract from : « The Works of John Marston » by John Marston
  • Just as the old religious painters used to limn saints and Madonnas, let us now write works of artistic and moral fiction.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 » by Various

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