Pronounced: PURR-suh-null-tee, noun
Notes: I’ve run across this word in reading, and it’s NOT “personality” misspelled.
Yesterday’s word
The word limn means
- to draw of paint on a surface
- to outline in clear, sharp detail : delineate
- describe
First usage
Our word came into English in the early to mid-1400s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Middle English word lymne, which is a variant of the word luminen (to illuminate manuscripts), which came from Middle French enluminer, which came from the Latin word ilūmināre (to embellish; literally to light up).
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