limn
to represent in drawing or painting.
to portray in words; describe.
Obsolete. to illuminate (manuscripts).
Origin of limn
1Other words from limn
- outlimn, verb (used with object)
- un·limned, adjective
Words that may be confused with limn
- limb, limn
Words Nearby limn
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use limn in a sentence
The idealized grid of fairness cannot limn the contours of these deep existential debts.
Why Favoritism Is Virtuous: The Case Against Fairness | Stephen T. Asma | December 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI fear it is not possible to limn so many persons in so small a tablet as the compass of our plays afford.
The Works of John Marston | John MarstonJust as the old religious painters used to limn saints and Madonnas, let us now write works of artistic and moral fiction.
As I have sketched an ideal parlour, so would I limn a bedroom I have seen.
The Quiver, Annual Volume 10/1899 | VariousNo, madam; the beauty of the features the artist had set himself to limn.
The Rosery Folk | George Manville Fenn
It is not possible in a chapter, a book or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France | Milburg Francisco Mansfield
British Dictionary definitions for limn
/ (lɪm) /
to represent in drawing or painting
archaic to describe in words
an obsolete word for illuminate
Origin of limn
1Derived forms of limn
- limner (ˈlɪmnə), noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse