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Portray   /pɔrtrˈeɪ/   Listen
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Portray  v. t.  (past & past part. portrayed; pres. part. portraying)  (Written also pourtray)  
1.
To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback. "Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem."
2.
Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
3.
To adorn with pictures. (R.) "Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed."






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"Portray" Quotes from Famous Books



... the man who prides himself on getting on the wrong side of every public issue is as pernicious an enemy to the country as the man who openly fires upon the flag; and I have seen mute sufferings of men in prison which no human pen can portray. ...
— The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself • Cole Younger

... together these two clauses for our text now, simply for the sake of that one feature which they both portray ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... children who have become immortal will cluster about them and nestle close in their thoughts and affections,—Tiny Tim, Little Jo, Little Nell, Little Boy Blue, and Eppie. A visitor in Turner's studio once said to the artist, "Really, Mr. Turner, I can't see in nature the colors you portray on canvas." Whereupon the artist replied, "Don't you wish you could?" When our pupils gain the ability to read and enjoy the message of the artist they will be able to hold communion with Raphael, Michael Angelo, Murillo, Rembrandt, Rosa Bonheur, Titian, Corot, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, ...
— The Reconstructed School • Francis B. Pearson

... by the face chiefly sought to express the man, never painted a full-length figure portrait. His long life, covering nearly the whole of the century, enabled him to portray many of the foremost men of the age—statesmen, poets, musicians, and men of letters. In his portrait gallery their fine spirits still meet one another face to face. But his portraits, in and through likenesses of the men, are made to ...
— The Book of Art for Young People • Agnes Conway

... someone else—in proof of which, witness the many play scenes in which the character of nurse, doctor, pirate, teacher, merchant or explorer is taken by children who, under the stimulus of their spontaneous imagery and as yet untrammeled by self-consciousness, freely enter into the character they portray. The dramatic impulse never wholly dies out. When we no longer aspire to do the acting ourselves we have others do it for us in the theaters or ...
— The Mind and Its Education • George Herbert Betts


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