settings
Jane Eyre vocabulary
432 vocabulary words, including people, places, music, artists, etc.
help & settings
[x]
-
lineament
-
► definition
Definition:1. any distinctive feature or shape2. a distinctive facial feature---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.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
► uses
Uses:
In the head and face every organ and lineament expressive of brutal and unhesitating violence was in a state of the highest possible development.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
---
There dwelt in Athens a young gentleman of great patrimony, and of so comely a personage, that it was doubted whether he were more bound to nature for the lineaments of his person, or to fortune for the increase of his possessions.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
---
the whole Houyhnhnm race, whom these of ours have the honour to resemble in all their lineaments, however their intellectuals came to degenerate.
---
John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
help with search