limn 的定义
- to represent in drawing or painting.
- to portray in words; describe.
- Obsolete. to illuminate.
limn 近义词
depict
更多limn例句
- The idealized grid of fairness cannot limn the contours of these deep existential debts.
- I fear it is not possible to limn so many persons in so small a tablet as the compass of our plays afford.
- Just as the old religious painters used to limn saints and Madonnas, let us now write works of artistic and moral fiction.
- As I have sketched an ideal parlour, so would I limn a bedroom I have seen.
- No, madam; the beauty of the features the artist had set himself to limn.
- It is not possible in a chapter, a book or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest.