单词 | disfigurement |
释义 | disfigurementn. 1. The action of disfiguring; the fact or condition of being disfigured; defacement, deformity. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] disfigurec1386 deformationc1440 defoulinga1450 disfiguring1526 deforming1552 disfiguredness1565 disgrace1581 defiguration1585 defeature1593 disfigurement1637 disfiguration1653 reprobation1774 uglification1820 desightment1828 deform1831 disfeaturement1884 1637 J. Milton Comus 3 And they..Not once perceive their foule disfigurement. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 460 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. 1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. ii. xxi. 482 The disease creates both great irritation and disfigurement. 1879 M. Arnold Irish Catholicism in Mixed Ess. 115 Their vain disfigurements of the Christian Religion. 2. Something that disfigures (by its presence or addition); a deformity, defacement, blemish. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] lastOE tachec1330 default1340 vicec1386 want1553 disfigurement1641 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 26 The scaffolding..would be but a troublesome disfigurement, so soone as the building was finisht. 1752 D. Hume Ess. xx. (R.) Pointed similes, and epigrammatic turns, especially when they recur too frequently, are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) iii. 179 This mass of rock must always have been an essential feature or a strange disfigurement of the Temple area. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 175 A dial is not necessarily a disfigurement to a tower. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1637 |
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