Definition of Portrayals

1. Noun. (plural of portrayal) ¹

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Definition of Portrayals

1. portrayal [n] - See also: portrayal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Portrayals

portrait
portrait camera
portrait lens
portrait painter
portraited
portraiting
portraitist
portraitists
portraitlike
portraits
portraiture
portraitures
portray
portrayable
portrayal
portrayals (current term)
portrayed
portrayer
portrayers
portraying
portrays
portreeve
portreeves
portress
portresses
ports
portsale
portsales
portscan
portscanned

Literary usage of Portrayals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Business Man in the Amusement World: A Volume of Progress in the Field by Robert Grau (1910)
"... and with difficulty sought a hearing; to-day he is worth a half million of dollars, while his portrayals are of the same truthful artistic character, ..."

2. The Erotic Motive in Literature by Albert Mordell (1919)
"CHAPTER VII PROJECTION, VILLAIN portrayals AND CYNICISM AS WORK OF THE UNCONSCIOUS I RENAN drew himself in his Life of ..."

3. The Erotic Motive in Literature by Albert Mordell (1919)
"CHAPTER VII PROJECTION, VILLAIN portrayals AND CYNICISM AS WORK OF THE UNCONSCIOUS I RENAN drew himself in his Life of Jesus, as one may see by comparing it ..."

4. Morale, the Supreme Standard of Life and Conduct by Granville Stanley Hall (1920)
"CHAPTER XV MORALE AND PROFITEERING War always followed by a period of greed—Its camouflages—The cures of (a) publicity; (b) ridicule; (c) portrayals of the ..."

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