He was of a leonine-coloured haire, sanguinocholerique, middle sized, strong.
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Leonine
//ˈliːənaɪn//
Synonyms for "leonine" (9 found)
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3 entriesrelated to
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
25 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- лъвски adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Catalan
1 entries- lleoní adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Czech
1 entries- lví adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Danish
1 entries- løve adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Dutch
1 entries- leeuwen adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Esperanto
1 entries- leona adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Finnish
4 entries- Leon adj (of or pertaining to one of the popes named Leo)
- leijonamainen adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
- leijonamainen adj (of a facies: resembling those of a lion as a result of some disease; of leprosy: causing a lionlike facies)
- leoniininen adj (being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse; of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme)
French
1 entries- léonin adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
German
2 entries- Löwen adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
- löwenartig adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Italian
1 entries- leonino adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Latin
1 entries- leoninus adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Malay
2 entries- kesingaan adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
- singa adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Manx
1 entries- lionagh adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Polish
1 entries- lwi adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Portuguese
2 entries- leonino adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
- leónico adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Russian
1 entries- льви́ный adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Spanish
1 entries- leonino adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ле́вовий adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
- леви́ний adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
Ti′ger. […] A fierce beaſt of the leonine kind.
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Redoubted King, of courage leonine, / I mark thee, Richard!
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Great sensibility lay in him [Edward Sterling], too; a real sympathy, and affectionate pity and softness, which he had an over-tendency to express even by tears,—a singular sight in so leonine a man.
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