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  • verb Present participle of characterise.

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Examples

  • With any multi-Doctor story, you have to assess the writer's success in characterising each Doctor (and companions), and with comics you have to grade the artists 'ability to depict the actors' faces as well.

    December Books 2) The Forgotten, by Tony Lee jekesta 2009

  • Indeed, it strikes at the very heart of morality in characterising it as a process of learning, of maturation, entirely in line with conventional morality's position in a Kohlbergian schema of moral development.

    A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

  • Indeed, it strikes at the very heart of morality in characterising it as a process of learning, of maturation, entirely in line with conventional morality's position in a Kohlbergian schema of moral development.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • Given that, even 12 years after our liberation, our continuing struggle is still centred on the task to eradicate the legacy of centuries of colonialism and apartheid, we have a similarly continuing responsibility to confront the triple - oppression we defined as characterising the condition of the women of our country.

    ANC Today 2006

  • Given that, even 12 years after our liberation, our continuing struggle is still centred on the task to eradicate the legacy of centuries of colonialism and apartheid, we have a similarly continuing responsibility to confront the triple-oppression we defined as characterising the condition of the women of our country.

    ANC Today 2006

  • The mode of interpretation which we have described as characterising the first and undisciplined age of critical inquiry, is not laid aside.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

  • These markings gave the animals that peculiar appearance so well known as characterising the skin of the leopard, hence the name of these little creatures was "leopard marmots."

    Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

  • These markings gave the animals that peculiar appearance so well-known as characterising the skin of the leopard, hence the name of these little creatures was "leopard-marmots."

    The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850

  • Their dress is upon the whole neat and comfortable, covered in general by a species of smock frock of a light blue colour, and exhibiting none of that miserable appearance which Mr Young described as characterising the labouring classes during his time.

    Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Archibald Alison 1829

  • This platform exhibits the same architectural model, which we have described as characterising the single temples.

    Diary in America, Series Two Frederick Marryat 1820

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