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limn
[ lim ]
verb (used with object)
- to represent in drawing or painting.
- to portray in words; describe.
- Obsolete. to illuminate (manuscripts).
limn
/ ˈlɪmnə; lɪm /
verb
- to represent in drawing or painting
- archaic.to describe in words
- an obsolete word for illuminate
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Derived Forms
- limner, noun
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Other Words From
- outlimn verb (used with object)
- un·limned adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of limn1
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English lymne, variant of Middle English luminen “to illuminate (manuscripts),” variant of enlumine, from Middle French enluminer, from Latin inlūmināre “to embellish,” literally, “light up”; illuminate
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Word History and Origins
Origin of limn1
C15: from Old French enluminer to illumine (a manuscript) from Latin inlūmināre to brighten, from lūmen light
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Example Sentences
The idealized grid of fairness cannot limn the contours of these deep existential debts.
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I fear it is not possible to limn so many persons in so small a tablet as the compass of our plays afford.
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Just as the old religious painters used to limn saints and Madonnas, let us now write works of artistic and moral fiction.
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As I have sketched an ideal parlour, so would I limn a bedroom I have seen.
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No, madam; the beauty of the features the artist had set himself to limn.
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It is not possible in a chapter, a book or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest.
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