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disˈfigurement
[f. disfigure v. + -ment: cf. OF. deffigureement, later défigurement (Cotgr.).]
1. The action of disfiguring; the fact or condition of being disfigured; defacement, deformity.
1634Milton Comus 74 And they..Not once perceive their foul disfigurement. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 49 The Carmelite church is not cieled, the rafters..being quite uncovered; but this disfigurement is abundantly compensated by the beauty and splendor of it in other parts. 1807–26S. Cooper First Lines Surg. 359 The disease creates both great irritation and disfigurement. 1879M. Arnold Irish Cath. Mixed Ess. 115 Their vain disfigurements of the Christian Religion.
2. Something that disfigures (by its presence or addition); a deformity, defacement, blemish.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. vi. (1851) 129 The scaffolding..would be but a troublesome disfigurement, so soone as the building was finisht. 1752Hume Ess. xx. (R.), Pointed similes, and epigrammatic turns, especially when they recur too frequently, are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. iii. (1858) 179 This mass of rock must always have been an essential feature or a strange disfigurement of the Temple area. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 175 A dial is not necessarily a disfigurement to a tower. |