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What is another word for delineations?

Pronunciation: [dɪlɪnˈiːʃənz] (IPA)

Delineations refer to the accurate portrayal of something through words, pictures, or other means. There are many synonyms for this word, each conveying a slightly different shade of meaning. Some of the most common synonyms for delineations include depictions, descriptions, illustrations, portrayals, representations, and sketches. These words can be used interchangeably to describe different types of visual or verbal art, from paintings and photographs to written descriptions and essays. No matter which synonym you choose, however, the key to creating powerful delineations is to use language that is clear, concise, and evocative.
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He shows also, in his delineations of character, high appreciation of practical wisdom, and of its most powerful instrument in a free State, the persuasive power of oratory.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
In her delineations of life she carefully eschews the anomalous or exceptional, pointing out repeatedly that she would not, if she could, be the writer, however brilliant, who dwells by preference on the moral or intellectual attributes which mark off his hero from the crowd instead of on those which he has in common with average humanity.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
But having followed this rule, and given the most marvellously truthful delineations of her fellow-men as they are ordinarily to be met with, she now also felt prompted to draw the exceptional types of human character, the rare prophets, and the sublime heroes.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind

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  • Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
    William E. Channing

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