Word Meanings - PORTRAITURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of

Additional info about word: PORTRAITURE

1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon. 2. Pictures, collectively; painting. Chaucer. 3. The art or practice of making portraits. Walpole.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PORTRAITURE)

• Copy
• Imitation
• portraiture
• facsimile
• counterfeit
• duplicate
• image
• likeness
• transcript

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PORTRAITURE)

• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to PORTRAITURE)

• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• TRANSCRIPTION
  An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation;
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• TRANSCRIPT
  A written version of what was said orally; as, a transcript of a trial. (more info) 1. That which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy. The decalogue of Moses was
• PORTRAITURE
  1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of
• UNMASK
  To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.
• DETECTION
  The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.
• IMAGERY
  1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. 2. Fig.: Unreal
• COUNTERFEITLY
  By forgery; falsely.
• IMAGER
  One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland.
• DETECTER
  One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.
• DETECT
  Detected. Fabyan.
• COUNTERFEIT
  contrefaire to counterfeit; contre + faire to make, fr. 1. Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed. Look here upon this picture, and on this-The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. Shak. 2.
• IMAGELESS
  Having no image. Shelley.
• DETECTABLE; DETECTIBLE
  Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable. "Errors detectible at a glance." Latham.
• IMITATION
  One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
• IMAGEABLE
  That may be imaged.
• COUNTERFEITER
  1. One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters. Camden. 2. One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false
• CONDUPLICATE
  Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• WARLIKENESS
  Quality of being warlike.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• REDUPLICATE
  Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the (more info) 1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
• DISLIKENESS
  Unlikeness. Locke.
• OVEREXPOSE
  To expose excessively; specif. ,
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible