Both Uses of
portray
in
Northanger Abbey
- At present she did not know her own poverty, for she had no lover to portray.†
Chpt 1 *
- The windows, to which she looked with peculiar dependence, from having heard the general talk of his preserving them in their Gothic form with reverential care, were yet less what her fancy had portrayed.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(portray) to depict (represent or describe in a particular way)
or:
to act the character of