adorner
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a·dorn
(ə-dôrn′)tr.v. a·dorned,
a·dorn·ing,
a·dorns 1. To lend beauty to: flowers adorned the walkway.
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
adōrnāre :
ad-,
ad- +
ōrnāre,
to decorate; see
ar- in
Indo-European roots.]
a·dorn′er n.
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The court poets and writers tell us that Shah Jahan was "the
adorner of the flowerbeds without autumn...the spring of the flower garden of justice and generosity", (33) he was the renewer, the mujaddid under whose rule "Hindustan has become the rose garden of the earth and his reign ...
The use of archetypal representations or "ready-made cliches to be slotted in anywhere" (Horkheimer &
Adorner, 1972, p.
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