defacementn.
The action or process of defacing; the fact or state of being defaced; concrete a disfigurement.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > damaging or injuring
spillinga1122
impairment1340
marring1357
damaginga1400
defacingc1400
spoiling1479
violation?c1500
facingc1540
deface1556
defacement1561
infection1563
spoil1575
endamageance1594
damagement1603
mismaking1615
empoisonmenta1626
vitiation1635
vitiating1669
spoilage1815
savaging1858
spoliation1867
mucking about1969
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (1634) i. xi. 38 It cannot be done without some defacement of his glory.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 55 In defacement of his former benefits.
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. G2 Modesty in me forbids the defacements in men departed.
1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 566 Such disorderly breaches are a great defacement of the lustre of the Protestant Reformation..which..was the special work of God.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France iii, in Wks. (1808) VIII. 310 Amidst the recent ruins and the new defacements of his plundered capital.
1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. i. 8 The removal of their excrescences and defacements.
1885 Manch. Examiner 23 May 5/1 The defacement of French copper coins..by having an advertisement stamped upon them.
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