Lineament
['lɪnɪəm(ə)nt] or ['lɪnɪəmənt]
Definition
(n.) One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; -- usually in the plural.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Outline (particularly of the face), feature, trait, line.
Editor: Maris
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Line, mark, feature, form, profile
ANT:Face, countenance, visage, aspect
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Examples
- He was seated on the ice, making spasmodic efforts to smile; but anguish was depicted on every lineament of his countenance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Each lineament was turned with grace; the whole aspect was pleasing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every lineament. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I had nowhere seen such faces as theirs: and yet, as I gazed on them, I seemed intimate with every lineament. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In the head and face every organ and lineament expressive of brutal and unhesitating violence was in a state of the highest possible development. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Blind as he was, smiles played over his face, joy dawned on his forehead: his lineaments softened and warmed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was impossible to doubt him; there was truth in every one of its thin and sharpened lineaments. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- As his lineaments soften with life, their faces and their hearts harden to him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What accuracy in all the lineaments! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There were purpose and feeling, banter and scoff, playing, mingled, on her mobile lineaments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She had been all animation with the game, and irritated pride did not lower the expression of her haughty lineaments. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His little form and tiny lineaments encaged the embryo of the world-spanning mind of man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Plato supposes that when the tablet has been made blank the artist will fill in the lineaments of the ideal state. Plato. The Republic.
- I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The lineaments which will get embodied in ideals based upon this new recognition will probably be akin to those of Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He might well be a little shocked at the irregularity of my lineaments, his own being so harmonious. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The philosophical systems which formulate these problems record the main lineaments and difficulties of contemporary social practice. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He stood looking down on the sleeping face which seemed to lie like a delicate impalpable mask over the living lineaments he had known. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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