Emblazon vs Blazon - What's the difference?

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Blazon is a related term of emblazon.

In transitive terms the difference between emblazon and blazon

is that emblazon is to celebrate or extol as with deeds or merit while blazon is to describe a coat of arms.

As a noun blazon is

a verbal or written description of a coat of arms.

emblazon

English

Verb

(en verb)

To adorn with prominent markings.

To inscribe upon.

The benefactor's image is emblazoned on our memory.

(heraldry) To draw (a coat of arms).

To celebrate or extol as with deeds or merit.

Derived terms

* emblazoner * emblazonment

blazon

English

(wikipedia blazon)

Noun

(en noun)

(heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.

* 1894 , James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry :

...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous

(heraldry) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.

* 1997 , Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon :

We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented'' many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the ''everyday lexicon of terms...

(heraldry) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.

* Sir Walter Scott

Their blazon o'er his towers displayed.

Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.

* Collier

Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.

* Shakespeare

Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee fivefold blazon .

Verb

(en verb)

To describe a coat of arms.

* Addison

the coat of arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English

* 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry

After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto

To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.

* Shakespeare, , Act VI-III:

O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st / in these two princely boys.

* Trumbull

There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.

* Cowper

to blazon his own worthless name

To display conspicuously or publicly.

To shine; to be conspicuous.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

* Garth

She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.