Marmoreal vs Marmoreous - What's the difference?
marmoreal | marmoreous |
Resembling marble or a marble statue.
* 1943 , H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
* 1949 , Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves
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* 1985 , Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
As adjectives the difference between marmoreal and marmoreous
is that marmoreal is resembling marble or a marble statue while marmoreous is marmoreal.marmoreal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- For in no wise could he leave that lofty spot, or descend the wide marmoreal flights.
- If, as I said, his fingertips arrived at this, perhaps her flesh, marmoreal and lazy, was hardly aware that these were, in fact, fingertips, and not for example, nails or knuckles.
- Irma had collapsed into a chair, and her long marmoreal face was buried in her hands.
- The gods, of course, were a quite farcical invention, though necessary for the as it were marmoreal exaltation of the civic virtues.