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Limning   Listen
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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Limning" Quotes from Famous Books



... all other joy. Is it not triumph for him to whom fate has denied personal beauty, that his hand—his flesh and blood hand—has power ta create it? What cares he for worldly splendour, when in dreams he can summon up a fairy-land so gorgeous that in limning it even his own rainbow-dyed pencil fails? What need has he for home, to whom the wide world is full of treasures of study—for which life itself is too short? And what to him are earthly and domestic ties? For friendship, ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)



Words linked to "Limning" :   delineation, animalization



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