Portrayist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who portrays or depicts.

    "[…] marriage, as at present understood, may soon be reckoned among the number of obsolete institutions, and offer a field of research to the antiquary rather than to the portrayist of existing ideas and customs."

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"[…] marriage, as at present understood, may soon be reckoned among the number of obsolete institutions, and offer a field of research to the antiquary rather than to the portrayist of existing ideas and customs."

Etymology

From portray + -ist.

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