delineament

See delineate and -ment.

delineament (plural delineaments)

1. A delineation
   • 1642, Henry More, Psychathanasia:

     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

   • 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, […], →OCLC:

     Hitherto we have onely considered the more rude and careless strokes and delineaments of Divine Providence in the world

2. a sketch.

• “delineament”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• delinjament

Borrowed from Italian delineamento.

• IPA^(key): /dɛ.lɪ.nɛ.aˈmɛnt/, /dɛ.lɪn.jaˈmɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

delineament m (plural delineamenti)

1. delineation