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readorn

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a⋅dorn

  [uh-dawrn]
Use readorn in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments: garlands of flowers adorning their hair.
2. to make more pleasing, attractive, impressive, etc.; enhance: Piety adorned Abigail's character.
Origin:
1325–75; ME adornen < L adōrnāre, equiv. to ad- ad- + ōrnāre to dress (see ornate ); r. late ME aourne < MF < L

Related forms:
a⋅dorn⋅er, noun
a⋅dorn⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. beautify; deck, bedeck; bedizen, array.
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Word Origin & History

adorn 
c.1374, from O.Fr. aourner, from L. adornare "equip, embellish," from ad- "to" + ornare "prepare, furnish, adorn, fit out," from stem of ordo "order" (see order). The -d- was reinserted by Fr. scribes 14c., in Eng. from late 15c. (see ad-).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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