单词 | portraying |
释义 | portrayingn. The action of portray v.; (a) portrayal. In early use also: †the art or medium of portraiture (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] portrayingc1385 portraiturea1393 portrayc1415 counterfeitingc1440 portraiting1552 rendering1825 paraphrase1951 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1938 Al the mount of Citheroun..Was shewed on the wal in purtreyynge [v.r. purtraiynge]. c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) 1631 (MED) A synglere laude this Thamyrys her wan For portreynge of the goddess Dyan. ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 1 (MED) Wype a-wey þe ore of þy cloþ þat þe portrayng may be sene. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 62 A speedy pourtraying of the conceit. 1755 J. A. Rouquet Present State Arts in Eng. iv. 52 Few of those who set up for portraying in enamel, have had perseverance enough to go through all the difficulties of it. 1833 F. A. Butler Jrnl. June (1835) II. 211 Is there no poetry in the fable of a play—none in the faithful portraying of a human being's mind and passions? 1872 Catholic World Mar. 859 In the vivid portraying of that greatest and most earnest battle in the early life of the church, the work is worthy of Dr. Newman. 1928 D. Drake New Morality xvi. 239 He objects likewise..to the portraying of any other vicious or criminal attitudes in suggestive or seductive ways. 1980 Times 7 Jan. 9/7 A claim could also ‘surely’ be made for the Edgeworth family as rivals to Jane [Austen] in the portraying of some part of that period. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1385 |
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