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a·dorn  (-dôrn)
tr.v. a·dorned, a·dorn·ing, a·dorns
1. To lend beauty to: "the pale mimosas that adorned the favorite promenade" (Ronald Firbank).
2. To enhance or decorate with or as if with ornaments: "[He] requires the presence of titles to legitimate and adorn . . . his imperfect status" (Cynthia Ozick).

[Middle English adornen, from Old French adourner, from Latin adrnre : ad-, ad- + rnre, to decorate; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]

a·dorner n.


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Dudley Digges, in 1604, defends poetry because he honors "the noble adorner of that practise Sir Philip Sidney," and in 1614, Richard Carey exclaimed "will you have all in all for Prose and verse?
 
 
 
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