All 9 Uses
adorn
in
Dante's Purgatory — translated by Norton
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- The rays of the four holy stars so adorned his face with light, that I saw him, as if the sun had been in front.†
Canto 1-11 *adorned = decorated
- A while ago in the dawn that precedes the day, when thy soul was sleeping within thee, upon the flowers wherewith the place down yonder is adorned, came a lady, and said, "I am Lucia; let me take this one who is sleeping; thus will I assist him along his way.'†
Canto 1-11
- Thereon our feet had not yet moved when I perceived that bank round about, which, being perpendicular, allowed no ascent, to be of white marble and adorned with such carvings, that not Polycletus merely but Nature would be put to shame there.†
Canto 1-11
- [1] With reverence adorn thine acts and thy face so that he may delight to direct us upward†
Canto 12-22adorn = decorate
- So sweet was my vocal spirit, that me of Toulouse Rome drew to itself, where I deserved to adorn my temples with myrtle.†
Canto 12-22
- Euripides is there with us, and Antiphon, Simonides, Agathon, and many other Greeks who of old adorned their brows with laurel.†
Canto 12-22adorned = decorated
- [11] And as the air when it is full of rain becomes adorned with divers colors by another's rays which are reflected in it, so here the neighboring air shapes itself in that form which is virtually imprinted upon it by the soul that hath stopped†
Canto 23-33
- To please me at the glass here I adorn me, but my sister Rachel never withdraws from her mirror, and sits all day.†
Canto 23-33adorn = decorate
- She is as fain to look with her fair eyes as I to adorn me with my hands.†
Canto 23-33
Definitions:
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(1)
(adorn) to decorate -- especially a person
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)