| 单词 | artistic licence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasartistic licence artistic licence n. (freedom to introduce) deviation from verisimilitude, or from an original text, score, etc., for the sake of effect in an artistic work or performance. ΚΠ 1845 Christian's Monthly Mag. 9 196 There are indeed other limitations.., which would render most pitiable..the restoration of the artistic license of the middle ages. 1858 Albion 18 Dec. 609/2 Several of the Revolutionary heroes are grouped together, who assuredly were never at any one time in each other's presence;—this artistic license having high authority, that of Raffaele in his ‘School of Athens’. 1952 K. Lorenz King Solomon's Ring (1962) Pref. p. xxvii There is..no more contemptible dilettantism than to use artistic licence as a specious cover for ignorance of fact. 1995 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) Nov. p. lxxxv/3 The book is well illustrated with clear drawings that accurately support the text with very little artistic licence. < as lemmas |
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