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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Portraiture  \Por"trai*ture\,  v.  t. 
  To  represent  by  a  portrait,  or  as  by  a  portrait;  to  portray. 
  [R.]  --Shaftesbury. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Portraiture  \Por"trai*ture\  (?;  135),  n.  [F.  portraiture.] 
  1.  A  portrait;  a  likeness;  a  painted  resemblance;  hence  that 
  which  is  copied  from  some  example  or  model. 
 
  For  by  the  image  of  my  cause  I  see  The  portraiture 
  of  his  --Shak. 
 
  Divinity  maketh  the  love  of  ourselves  the  pattern; 
  the  love  of  our  neighbors  but  the  portraiture. 
  --Bacon. 
 
  2.  Pictures,  collectively;  painting.  [Obs.]  --Chaucer. 
 
  3.  The  art  or  practice  of  making  portraits.  --Walpole. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  portraiture 
  n  1:  a  word  picture  of  a  person's  appearance  and  character  [syn: 
  {portrayal},  {portrait}] 
  2:  the  activity  of  making  portraits 




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