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单词 disfigurement
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disfigurementn.

Etymology: < disfigure v. + -ment suffix: compare Old French deffigureement, later défigurement (Cotgrave).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: disˈfigurement.
1. The action of disfiguring; the fact or condition of being disfigured; defacement, deformity.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun]
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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.
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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).
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