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Definition of Portraying
1. Noun. A representation by picture or portraiture.
Generic synonyms: Representational Process
Specialized synonyms: Mirror
Derivative terms: Depict, Depict, Depict, Portray, Portray, Portray
Definition of Portraying
1. Verb. (present participle of portray) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Portraying
1. portray [v] - See also: portray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portraying
Literary usage of Portraying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap, Frank William Bayley, Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1918)
"Stauffer notices an engraving portraying an engagement between the Georgia Militia
and the Creek Indians published about 1813 and bearing "JWB" as the ..."
2. English Composition by Chester Noyes Greenough, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey (1917)
"Methods of portraying Character. — There are many methods of portraying character:
choice of names, description, exposition, action, and dialogue. 114. ..."
3. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"The Making and Ornamentation of Pipes — Bead-work, Paint, Feathers, and Fringes —
Indian Artists — Their Delight at Pictures — portraying their Remarkable ..."
4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Burns and the soil; portraying power, in relation to scenery, his friends, his
enemies, and himself. Everything individual; persons and places specified. ..."
5. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and by Alexander John Ellis (1871)
"2657 ; the variante are to be explained as those oí portraying, which see.
Verily 1174, the variants may be explained as in Courtesy, which see. ..."
6. German Atrocities, Their Nature and Philosophy: Studies in Belgium and by Newell Dwight Hillis (1918)
"... ILLUSTRATIONS portraying GERMAN ATROCITIES GERMAN SOLDIER'S TOKEN "Strike him
dead! The Day of Judgment will not ask your reasons! ..."
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