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depict

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1. depict - Adjective

2. depict - Verb

Meaning

Depicted.

To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.

To represent in words; to describe vividly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. William Ralph Inge

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. David Lynch

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. Hayao Miyazaki

No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Jean Fautrier

Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day. Paul Bourget

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect. Martin Luther

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