Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of arraying.
- noun That in which one is arrayed; raiment.
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Examples
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The damosel beheld the poor knight, and saw he was a likely man, but for his poor arrayment she thought he should be of no worship without villainy or treachery.
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But worthiness and good deeds are not all only in arrayment.
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler
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At last, however, when the damsel was departing, he plucked up courage to ask if he might try; and when she hesitated he said: "Fair damsel, worthiness and good deeds are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship are hid within man's person."
Sandy Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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Ah! fair damosel, said Balin, worthiness, and good tatches, and good deeds, are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship is hid within man's person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment.
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The damosel beheld the poor knight, and saw he was a likely man, but for his poor arrayment she thought he should be of no worship without villainy or treachery.
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Fair daughter take this and bear it in mind of Jesu Christ your espouse, and suffer not about you none other arrayment of gold ne silver, ne of precious stones, for if the beauty of this world surmount a little your thought, ye shall lose the goods of heaven.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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The conspiracy of Pontiac and the arrayment of savage forces by Tecumseh are insignificant by comparison.
Three Noted Chiefs of the Sioux Anonymous 1890
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Timoth. after he hath spoken much of the simple arrayment of women: he addeth these wordes: woman oght not onelie to haue simple arrayment, but all authoritie is to be denied vnto her: for she must be in subiection to man (of whome she hath taken her originall) aswell in habit as in seruice.
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878
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The same Ambrose writing vpon the second chapitre of the first epistle to Timothie [50], after he hath spoken much of the simple arrayment of women: he addeth these wordes: woman oght not onelie to haue simple arrayment, but all authoritie is to be denied vnto her: for she must be in subiection to man (of whome she hath taken her originall) aswell in habit as in seruice.
The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874
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Ah! fair damosel, said Balin, worthiness, and good tatches, and good deeds, are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship is hid within man’s person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment.
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