Meanings
plural representments
- archaicA depiction or representation.
we shall not urge such representments; we could spare the Holy Lamb for the picture of our Saviour, and the dove or fiery tongues to represent the Holy Ghost.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.22
Origin
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