All 3 Uses
adorn
in
The Fountainhead
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- Etchings of Greek temples adorned the panels, too small to be distinguished, but presenting the unmistakable columns, pediments and crumbling stone.†
Chpt 1.3 *adorned = decorated
- It was a three-floor edifice, part marble, part stucco, adorned with gargoyles and carriage lanterns.†
Chpt 2.4
- They demand unadorned simplicity—like the honesty of the unspoiled common man.†
Chpt 3.6unadorned = 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.
Definitions:
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(1)
(adorn) to decorate -- especially a person
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)