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verb

Deform v. t. (past & past part. deformed; pres. part. deforming)

To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. "Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world."

To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. "Above those passions that this world deform."

adjective

Deform adj. Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid. (Obs.) "Sight so deform what heart of rock could long Dry-eyed behold?"

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Etymology of 'Deform'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deform" Quotes from Famous Books

... and every woman who submits to such distortion is either ignorant or weak. The body is fearfully and wonderfully and beautifully made, a glorious possession, a fair and noble edifice, the Temple of the Holy Ghost, beautiful its symmetry, for its adaptations, for its uses; and they who deform and degrade it by a fashion founded in ignorance, fostered by folly, and fruitful of woe, are working a work which can be forgiven them only when they know not what ...

— Gala-days • Gail Hamilton

... in ourselves deform'd we are, And black as Kedar tent appear, Yet when we put thy beauties on, Fair as the courts ...

— Hymns and Spiritual Songs • Isaac Watts

... your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who owns it is not a niggard of its use. I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlement, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests. If any such there be, and he will follow me from sun to sun, through the ...

— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper

... at the first glance, how the influence of this theosophy made itself felt in this sensitive character, full as it was of surprises. Delsarte was born good, generous, above the petty tendencies which deform and degrade the human type. On these diverse points, religious faith could scarcely show its effect; but he also declared himself to be irritable and violent—he confessed to a dangerous fickleness—still, he would readily have slandered himself in ...

— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various

... raven hair, which still maintained its jetty dye, her lofty forehead would have been displayed to the greatest advantage, had it not been at this moment knit and deformed by excess of passion, if that passion can be said to deform which only calls forth strong and vehement expression. Her figure, which wanted only height to give it dignity, was arrayed in the garb of widowhood; and if she exhibited none of the desolation of heart which such a bereavement might ...

— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth

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