ILLUSTRATE in THE FOUNTAINHEAD

2 meanings, 9 uses

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1 —1 use as in:
as illustrated by this example

Definition

to help make clear — typically by example

Our Mr. Parker's son is studying architecture and we had him draw us up a sketch, just a rough sketch to illustrate what we had in mind and to show the members of the board, because they couldn't have visualized the compromise we offered.
1.15 — Part 1 Chapter 15 (76% in)

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2 —1 use as in:
an illustrated children's book

Definition

to draw pictures (or provide photographs) to accompany a book or other writing

He ran a series of illustrated articles on "The Churches of Our Childhood."
2.12 — Part 2 Chapter 12 (22% in)

illustrated = accompanied by drawings

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exact meaning not specified

It lent itself to Sunday-supplement illustrations of girls leaping into rivers, their skirts flaring well above their knees.
1.12 — Part 1 Chapter 12 (2% in)
The architect is the concrete illustration of a cosmic paradox.
2.8 — Part 2 Chapter 8 (94% in)
A society woman wrote an article on the exotic shrines she had seen in her dangerous jungle travels, praised the touching faith of the savages and reproached modern man for cynicism; the Stoddard Temple, she said, was a symptom of softness and decadence; the illustration showed her in breeches, one slim foot on the neck of a dead lion.
2.12 — Part 2 Chapter 12 (19% in)
One story was illustrated with scientific diagrams; the other—with the picture of a loose-mouthed girl wearing a tragic expression and disarranged clothes.
3.1 — Part 3 Chapter 1 (63% in)
"The incident illustrates to perfection," wrote Ellsworth Toohey, "the antisocial nature of Mr. Howard Roark's egotism, the arrogance of the unbridled individualism which he has always personified."
4.1 — Part 4 Chapter 1 (93% in)
He tore it from the story it illustrated, and slipped it into his desk drawer.
4.2 — Part 4 Chapter 2 (97% in)

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illustrate used in The Fountainhead