aureate

Example Sentences

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The language here — which Walsh writes with aureate poeticism, full of vivid imagery and pointed symbolism — is what gives the show its melancholic beauty.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2021

Bearing a golden seal, in aureate legalistic language, the documents claimed that an obscure 18th-century treaty gave the sender rights to claim her new house as his own.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2021

A dusted copper heaven streaked with gold and siphoned from Klimt’s aureate imagination.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2017

This came as something of a surprise to those whose sole experience of festivals has been knee-deep in mud, swaying arhythmically while those around either pogo or chuck pints of aureate liquid about the place.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2012

This perversion of rhetoric which considered it as concerned only with style, or aureate language, was not restricted to the school books.

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen