Leonine definition

lēə-nīn
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lion.
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Resembling or suggestive of a lion, as in being powerful or dignified.
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Of, characteristic of, or like a lion.
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The definition of leonine is someone or something that is like a lion.

An example of a leonine person is a person with a big mane of fluffy hair.

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Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lion.

His leonine face scared the young children.

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Origin of leonine

  • Middle English from Old French leonin from Latin leōnīnus from leō leōn- lion lion

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin leōnīnus 'of a lion; lion-like'.

    From Wiktionary

Leonine Sentence Examples

  • The Greeks equated Ubasti with their Artemis, confusing her with the leonine Tafne, sister of Shoou (Apollo).

  • The lesions, in combination with generalized edema, produced a leonine facies.

  • In the later series of Western rituals, beginning with that which is known as the Leonine Sacramentary, this practice is almost universal.

  • He wrote, with papal approval, the letter requesting the Italians to occupy the Leonine city, and obtained from the Italians payment of the Peter's pence (5,000,000 lire) remaining in the papal exchequer, as well as 50,000 scudi - the first and only instalment of the Italian allowance (subsequently fixed by the Law of Guarantees, March 21, 1871) ever accepted by the Holy See.

  • In the same century the monastery of Gandersheim, south of Hanover, was the retreat of the learned nun Hroswitha, who celebrated the exploits of Otho in leonine hexameters, and composed in prose six moral and religious plays in imitation of Terence.

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