Meanings
noundelineament (plural delineaments)
plural delineaments
- A delineation
Hitherto we have onely considered the more rude and careless strokes and delineaments of Divine Providence in the world
1653, Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC1 more example
The sunne's a type of that eternall light Which we call God, a fair delineament Of that which Good in Plato's school is hight
1642, Henry More, Psychathanasia - a sketch.
Origin
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