Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of emblazoning.
- noun That which is emblazoned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An emblazoning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
emblazoning . - noun The state of being emblazoned.
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Examples
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They were 16 and 14 respectively, so they have a lifelong love affair with emblazonment.
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Seest thou how the twin plumes straighten on his crest, and his father's own emblazonment already marks him for upper air?
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Agrippa, with favouring winds and gods, proudly leads on his column; on his brows glitters the prow-girt naval crown, the haughty emblazonment of the war.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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And shall I count it unworthy to pass these few in-door hours of rain in the emblazonment of their titles?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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Those who had before frequented them did not discontinue their visits, and those who were ignorant of such places and seeking them, on seeing the emblazonment by the doors, cried out -- that is just what we wanted, and turned in.
A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father William Cooper
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So it was that his more or less casual lark visibly took on, from the perspective of this castle in Luristan, as he unrolled a gaudy emblazonment of eagles at the top of the parchment, a new and curious color.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Beyond the shore floated the long canoe, with its curving ends and its emblazonment of the five-pointed stars.
Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest Stewart Edward White 1909
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Beyond the shore floated the long canoe, with its curving ends and its emblazonment of the five-pointed stars.
The Call of the North Stewart Edward White 1909
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Christmas is the friendly human announcement of this ghostly truth; its holly and boar's-head are but a rough-and-tumble emblazonment of that mystic gospel of -- The Three Words; the Gospel of the Unseen Love.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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This led to many awkward results, as when the art of printing is placed by the side of orthography as a subdivision of Logic, to which also is given the art of heraldry or emblazonment.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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