limning
Meaning of limning
verb, gerund or present participle
- depict or describe in painting or words.
Miss Read limns a gentler world in her novels
late Middle English (in the sense ‘illuminate a manuscript’): alteration of obsolete lumine ‘illuminate’, via Old French luminer from Latin luminare ‘make light’.
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- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of limning
limn-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- limning is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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