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Defacement   Listen
noun
Defacement  n.  
1.
The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.
2.
That which mars or disfigures.





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"Defacement" Quotes from Famous Books



... event of public interest happened during the bishopric of John Towers, in 1643; namely, the destruction and defacement of all the monuments and ornamental pictures of the cathedral, through the foolish prejudices and blinded bigotry of the puritanical followers of Cromwell, who destroyed every thing valuable within it, and ...
— The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral • George S. Phillips
... with deteriorated physique. Students of faces in the remoter country are struck by the absence of what, for want of a better word, we may call vulgarity. That insidious defacement is seen to be a thing of towns, and not at all a matter of "class." The simplest country cottager, shepherd, fisherman, has as much, often a deal more, dignity than numbers of our upper classes, who, in spite of ...
— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy


Words linked to "Defacement" :   harm, disfiguration, hurt, disfigurement


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