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Limning   Listen
verb
Limn  v. t.  (past & past part. limned; pres. part. limning)  
1.
To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush. "Let a painter carelessly limn out a million of faces, and you shall find them all different."
2.
Hence: To picture in words; to describe in graphic terms.
3.
To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.


noun
Limning  n.  The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced. "Adorned with illumination which we now call limning."





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"Limning" Quotes from Famous Books



... pleasure of introducing her character in one of my novels, for I felt that if I should succeed in limning it faithfully the modern reader would be justified in considering her an impossible figure for our days. She would perhaps have suited a fairy tale; and when I created Bianca in The Elixir I gave her Nenny's form. The gratitude which I owe her will accompany me to my life's end, for it was she who ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


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