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Word of the Day for Friday, October 24, 2008limn \LIM\, transitive verb: 1. To depict by drawing or painting. Oh, yes, I write, as I limn the familiar perfections of his profile, "you look very well." In telling these people's stories Mr. Butler draws upon the same gifts of empathy and insight, the same ability to limn an entire life in a couple of pages. But used faithfully and correctly, language can "limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers." Limn is from Middle English limnen, alteration of luminen, from enluminen, from Medieval French enluminer, from Late Latin illuminare, "to illuminate," ultimately from Latin lumen, "light." | |||||||||
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