embellishment

Definitions

noun

1

An act of embellishing.

2

An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish.

Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; — she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.

Collocations

2

VERB + EMBELLISHMENT

measure

EMBELLISHMENT + NOUN

poet

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of adding extraneous decorations to something

ornamentation

noun — elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (s

embroidery

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

2

01

Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; — she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really du

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02

All preceding narrations are so intermixed with fable, that philosophers ought to abandon them in a great measure, to the embellishment of the poet and orator.

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