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portraiture Noun 1. the art of making portraits 2. a description 3. a. a portrait b. portraits collectively portraiture 1. the process or art of painting portraits. See also: Art
2. the portrait itself. 3. portraits collectively. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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For divinity, maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors, but the portraiture. A further proof is, that novices in the art attain to finish: of diction and precision of portraiture before they can construct the plot. Among them towers the Poet Laureate, to whom perhaps Higgins may owe his Miltonic sympathies, though here again I must disclaim all portraiture. |
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