embellishment
Collocations
2VERB + EMBELLISHMENT
measure
EMBELLISHMENT + NOUN
poet
Definitions
noun
An act of embellishing.
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.
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Synonyms
noun — the act of adding extraneous decorations to something
noun — elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (s
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Example Bank
2Reflection 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
WiktionaryAll 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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