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Definition of Depictor
1. depicter [n -S] - See also: depicter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depictor
Literary usage of Depictor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Modern Painting by Richard Muther (1895)
"Middle-class society and its depictor, Jean-Baptiste Simeon Char din.—Germany:
Less ing frees the drama from the classical yoke of Boileau, and, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1893)
"... depictor of Scottish character. The stories are bright and entertaining, worthy
of the pen of л Dickens. Hilf a dozen of the sketches are literary and ..."
3. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1905)
"... work in itself much is added by the author's pre eminence as the sympathetic
depictor, the historian, as it were, of the old relation between master and ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"As a depictor of the phases of humanity, his portraits are almost all of one
class ; and with that class are identified his entire sympathies. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... nearly in our own time, perhaps within the recollection of some noble Lords
who bear me, Goldsmith, our most natural depictor of life and manners; ..."
6. The Monitor (1879)
"Then, among novelists, we can only mention the great humorist, Dickens, and great
depictor of character, ..."
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