emblazoned

comparative more emblazoned · superlative most emblazoned

1. Marked by light that blazes out.

   What strength conceives a more emblazoned portal Around this travailing earth, around her courses mortal!

   1908, David Chalmers Nimmo, “Night”, in Songs, page 80

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   She had often thought how the morning sun made that particular stretch of road look shiny just after dawn—her own "yellow brick road," only it wasn't made of brick. And today it was more emblazoned than usual.

   2013, Allan Young, The Return of the Prairie Rose, page 279

   In the absence of fixed lines, angles, grids, or material forms, light itself is architectural and provides the "idea of order" that he seeks: "Fixing emblazoned zones and fiery poles, /Arranging, deepening, enchanting night.”

   2023, Jo Gill, Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination, page 235

2. Adorned with prominent markings or ornamentation.

   It is somewhat like St. Paul's inside but is more emblazoned.

   1884, Demetrius Charles Boulger, General Gordon's letters from the Crimea, the Danube, and Armenia

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   The king's coach was heavier and more emblazoned with ornament than the others, and carried on its top a globe, which once had a meaning.

   1888, Charles Robert Corning, Aalesund to Tetuan, page 331

   The elder friends had sociably revolved there while the younger ones followed bolder fancies in the admirable equipage appointed to Milly at the hotel—a heavier, more emblazoned, more amusing chariot than she had ever, with “stables" notoriously mismanaged, known at home;

   1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

3. Fiery; impassioned.

   A pair of very familiar, very emblazoned sapphire blue eyes were watching me.

   2024, Andrea Smith, Shadows & Dreams

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   As these networks grew, leaders emerged, and each seemed to grow more emblazoned.

   2013, Barbara Harris Combs, From Selma to Montgomery: The Long March to Freedom

   The sound of it echoed through the chamber and all Bellerophon could do was stare at her as she puffed air out her nose, her eyes becoming more and more emblazoned with fury.

   2019, Marios Christou, David Ramenah, Greek Mythology Explained

   This is almost a modest example of the period praise directed at A Woman of Paris. More emblazoned examples intermittently follow at appropriate times.

   2021, Wes D. Gehring, Charlie Chaplin and A Woman of Paris, page 5

4. Having been extolled; celebrated.

   Higher rank, longer service, or a more emblazoned fame, may have given to some a larger celebrity before the public eye;

   1839 March 28, “The Late Capt. S. L. Russell”, in Army and Navy Chronicle, volume 8, number 13, page 203

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   Another class must now engage my lay— Unsentenced , yet iniquitous as they: Such as rejoice in more emblazoned names— St. George, thy denizens, and thine, St. James.

   1859, William Read, Sketches from Dover Castle, page 160

   Yet why, fool that I am, seek I to teach Thee, knowing that more emblazoned is thy glory In that my life's story so quick its sad end doth reach.

   1898, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Henry Edward Watts, Don Quixote de la Mancha

   Once a background—now it's more emblazoned over other colours—white an acting first liutenant rounding up the troops to follow Major Yellow's marching band and what a noise these fellows make.

   2024, Steve Rushton, Interpretations from the Dryden Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, page 91

5. Prominent in people's thoughts, highly salient; unforgettable.

   Baby, can you feel me? / Imagining I'm looking in your eyes / I can see you clearly / Vividly emblazoned in my mind

   1997, Mariah Carey, “My All”, in Butterfly, track 3

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   And in the very struggle you shall find your strength, seeing amid the tumult, and high above it, this scroll ever more emblazoned, 'To him that overcometh.'

   1871 November 1, Dr. Edmond, “Student-Life in the Light of After Years”, in The United Presbyterian Magazine, page 501

   And the more significant the international border became, the more emblazoned the line became in the minds of the denizens of the borderlands, and the more Indians crossed it and helped turn the newly ascendant states on either side against one another.

   2018, James David Nichols, The Limits of Liberty, page 39

   Even more emblazoned in my mind is Laura, the sweet and spunky (again, sweetness before spunk) wholesome daughter who adores her father and respects her mother, whose only dream is to stay on the prairie, marry a farm boy, run a schoolhouse, and rear some babies (that I, like my sister and every other girl I grew up with, read all the Little House books should shock no one—it was shat we girls did).

   2020, Bethany Maile, Anything Will Be Easy after This: A Western Identity Crisis, page 171

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of emblazon