Usage of "lineament" | TermGallery

Portuguese

qualidade

Catalan

qualitat

Spanish

calidad

A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something.

Portuguese

Catalan

Spanish

The characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin.

feature

traço

Usage of lineament in English

Compared with the original, at last-inevery lineament how like it was! 
 The Seven Poor Travellers 

Despair-black, utter despair-waswritten in every lineament of his expressive countenance. 
 The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney 

Courage was imprinted by Nature's never-erring hand on every lineament of his Saxon features. 
 Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) / Lette... 

Nor was the calm, dignified countenance on which my eyes rested, strange in every lineament. 
 The Allen House; Or, Twenty Years Ago and Now 

Something wandering about something in chains-canone imagine a more mournful lineament in the darkness? 
 The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History 

Sir Andrew rose, with disapproval written in every lineament. 
 Ranson's Folly 

One slight lineament of his character Swift has preserved. 
 Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 

Yet from every lineament there came a strange repelling influence, like that from a snake. 
 Alice of Old Vincennes 

Oh, that your Charity and mine might not lack this lineament of the Divine likeness! 
 Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at ... 

He stopped to enjoy the amazement that was written in every lineament of the other's face. 
 The Courage of Captain Plum 

As for Kate herself, her happiness beamed in every line and lineament of her handsome face. 
 Lord Kilgobbin 

Nelly observed these disappearances with intense amazement, and delight stamped every lineament of her little visage. 
 Silver Lake 

A gloomy rage was depicted to every lineament. 
 Palestine, or, the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Pr... 

Are they perfect of lineament, perfect of stature? 
 Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher 

What a depth of meaning lay in the purely oval face so beautifully defined in every lineament. 
 Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life 

The open, generous and manly disposition of the young Lieutenant shone in every lineament of his countenance. 
 Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton 