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What does limn mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To draw or paint; delineate.
  2. (transitive) To describe.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To illuminate, as a manuscript.
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That holy glow was attic light by which she watched him limn the son of God.
But she could not wipe out the king's majesty with that sponge nor alter one lineament of the portrait she had taken ten years to limn.
It is not possible in a chapter, a book, or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest.
Somehow the arches and curves of its branches seemed to limn a pattern so dreadful that his heart beat faster as he gazed upon it.
As I have sketched an ideal parlour, so would I limn a bedroom I have seen.
There were no longer these telling situations to limn which spoke for themselves, and without straw, bricks are not to be made.

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