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Definition of Adorn
Adorn

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

Adornment.

Adorned; decorated.

Related Definitions:
Adorned, Adornment, Advantage, Attractive, Deck, Decorated, Dress, Embellish, Off, Or, Pleasing, Render, Set, To, With


Adorn Quotations

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
Robert Burns

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Eliza Farnham

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.
William Shirley

Adorn Translations

adorn in Dutch is versieren
adorn in German is zieren
adorn in Latin is orno, decoro, glorifico, insignio, extollo, excolo
adorn in Norwegian is pryde, smykke
adorn in Swedish is smycka, pryda


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