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Definition of Bedizenment
1. n. That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
Definition of Bedizenment
1. Noun. That which bedizens. ¹
2. Noun. The act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bedizenment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedizenment
Literary usage of Bedizenment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"And we can quite easily see how the "aureate" phraseology of the fifteenth century—
the heavy bedizenment of Latinised phrase, which we find not merely in ..."
2. History of English Literature by Henri Van Laun, Hippolyte Taine (1871)
"Its •whole aim was continually to climb higher, to clothe the sacred edifice with
a gaudy bedizenment, as if it were a bride on the wedding morning. ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... its silver stream, it would cover itself with beads; you saw it deck out its
strange carcass with a sparkling bedizenment of mother-of-pearl necklaces. ..."
4. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"What a sight, to see a delicate little creature, or, worse perhaps, a " fine
woman," in all the glory of her beauty and bedizenment, rise up with a huge ..."
5. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"Only in the lower rhetoric is bedizenment sought — save for Irony, the sole one
of the greater figures which almost necessitates simplicity. ..."
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