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Definition of Portraitures
1. portraiture [n] - See also: portraiture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portraitures
Literary usage of Portraitures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"THESE historic portraitures of the whole Bible consist of well-finished wood
cuts, with four lines to each in explanation of the subject. ..."
2. Christian Archaeology by Charles Wesley Bennett (1888)
"The free statues which remain are manifestly not designed for portraitures, but
are of a symbolic character. In all alike Christ is represented as the Good ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"portraitures of Julius Caesar. By Frank J. Scott. London: Longmans, 1903. 3.
Augustus. By ES Shuckburgh. London: Fisher Unwin, 1903. 4. ..."
4. Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1904)
"... the vitality and action to be seen in the Chinese portraitures of the crow,
the sparrow, the crane, and a hundred other varieties of the feathered race. ..."
5. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"Special portraitures of Thirteen of them. — Some Peculiar Heads there, and how
much George III. wanted them. — Prayer of John Adams. ..."
6. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Biography: Embracing a Series of Original Memoirs by Elihu Rich, Lambert Lilly (1856)
"I ental Eclogues are exquisite portraitures of natural feeling, and, to do them
full justice, perfect cabinet pictures of Eastern scenery. ..."
7. The Works of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus, Thomas Gordon (1770)
"... the portraitures of men. The form of the foul is eternal, fuch as you cannot
... portraitures ..."
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