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/pɔrtrˈeɪɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Portray v. t. (past & past part. portrayed; pres. part. portraying) (Written also pourtray)

To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback. "Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem."

Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.

To adorn with pictures. (R.) "Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed."

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Etymology of 'Portraying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Portraying" Quotes from Famous Books

... to say that the reader must go to the files of the city press for an account of the night's festivity. The pen that has been used in portraying Margaret's career is entirely inadequate to it. There is a general impression that an American can do anything that he sets his hand to, but it is not true; it is true only that he tries everything. The reporter is born, as the poet is; it cannot be acquired—that ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... new packages with those he had so often brought before, very comfortably. The next arrival was a delicate pair of silver salt-cellars and spoons from Mr. Alcott,—then a little framed sketch from the Captain of the Vulcan, portraying the meeting of two steamers at sea, with these words underneath—'The despatch post'. At which Mr. Linden looked with much amusement. ...

— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner

... blind and careless, seeks a good and finds it, if only in hope and the effort to attain. Through the intimacy of his descriptions and often against our resistance, the artist may compel us to adopt the attitude of the life which he is portraying, constraining us to feel the inner necessity of its choices, the compulsion of its delights. It is difficult to abandon ourselves thus to sympathy with what is wrong in life itself, because we have in mind ...

— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

... tale portraying the exciting adventures of the Gingerbread Man and his comrade, Chick the Cherub, in the "Palace of Romance," "The Land of the Mifkets," "Hiland and Loland," etc. The book is delightfully pictured by John R. Neill, illustrator of OZMA OF OZ ...

— Policeman Bluejay • L. Frank Baum

... truth, do it so deftly that we shall never detect you. But in natural history there is no need to counterfeit the truth; the reality always suffices, if you have eyes to see it and ears to hear it. Behold what Maeterlinck makes out of the life of the bee, simply by getting at and portraying the facts—a true wonder-book, the enchantment of poetry wedded to ...

— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs

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