All 3 Uses of
adorn
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- It will be a year and a half ago soon since we found ourselves at last after many wanderings and numerous calamities in this magnificent capital, adorned with innumerable monuments.†
Chpt 1.2 *adorned = decorated
- He loved that church, the old-fashioned, unadorned ikons and the old priest with the shaking head.†
Chpt 1.5unadorned = not decoratedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unadorned means not and reverses the meaning of adorned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Well, to proceed, wit in my opinion is a splendid thing, it is, so to say, an adornment of nature and a consolation of life, and what tricks it can play!†
Chpt 4.5adornment = decoration
Definition:
to decorate -- especially a person