Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of delineating, as by means of pencil or brush.
- noun That which is limned; a delineation, literally or figuratively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
limn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
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Examples
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And, for all that, surprisingly charming, particularly in limning the Rolling Stones 'origins, which can be traced, mundanely enough, to a fateful encounter in a train station.
Keith Richards's 'Life': An unexpectedly clear look at years as a Rolling Stone Lou Bayard 2010
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And, for all that, surprisingly charming, particularly in limning the Rolling Stones 'origins, which can be traced, mundanely enough, to a fateful encounter in a train station.
Keith Richards's 'Life': An unexpectedly clear look at years as a Rolling Stone Lou Bayard 2010
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He analogized entropy -- psychic/physical/sexual -- in gorgeous, assaulting, crevassing paint limning bodies torqued by forces inside and outside of them.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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That fact came to the fore at the premiere screening on Wednesday night of the new documentary, Project Nim, a bildungsroman if you will, limning his birth, maturation, and particularly his remarkable use of language.
Regina Weinreich: Project Nim: The Dope on a Charismatic Chimp Regina Weinreich 2011
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He analogized entropy -- psychic/physical/sexual -- in gorgeous, assaulting, crevassing paint limning bodies torqued by forces inside and outside of them.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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He analogized entropy -- psychic/physical/sexual -- in gorgeous, assaulting, crevassing paint limning bodies torqued by forces inside and outside of them.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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EON has a large cast of characters, and Goodman does a fairly good job of limning each of them; however, I had some problems with the ways they all related to one another.
Free Fiction February: "Antickes and Frets" by Susanna Clarke 2009
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That fact came to the fore at the premiere screening on Wednesday night of the new documentary, Project Nim, a bildungsroman if you will, limning his birth, maturation, and particularly his remarkable use of language.
Regina Weinreich: Project Nim: The Dope on a Charismatic Chimp Regina Weinreich 2011
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Huneven has a knack for limning the limits of guilt, and as her protagonist takes stock and charge of a too-lived-in life, the outlands of moral ambiguity begin to appear as sunken gardens of familiarity, blooming with humaneness.
Cover to Cover 2009
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He analogized entropy -- psychic/physical/sexual -- in gorgeous, assaulting, crevassing paint limning bodies torqued by forces inside and outside of them.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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