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Defacement

noun
1.
The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something.  Synonyms: disfiguration, disfigurement.  "He objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape"






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"Defacement" Quotes from Famous Books



... the defacement of the virginal scene by an unlovely dwelling—the, imposition of a scar on the unspotted landscape? None, save that the arrogant intruder needed shelter, and that he was neither a Diogenes to be content in a tub nor a Thoreau to find in boards an ...
— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield

... so let me ask you to look, in the next place, at the defacement of the image and the wrong ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... company gasping. Most of all it seemed to astonish the woman, who could not be expected to know that my uncle's chivalry accepted all her sex, the lowest with the highest, in the image in which God made it and without defacement. ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

... the sedan was brought home empty, and without a sign of defacement inside or out. It told ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

... called a playroom, where chaos continually reigns. It is a mistake to suppose, because children derange a well-furnished apartment, that they like confusion. Order and beauty are always pleasant to them as to grown people, and disorder and defacement are painful; but they know neither how to create the one nor to prevent the other,—their little lives are a series of experiments, often making disorder by aiming at some new form of order. Yet, for all this, ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... No. 9 at the prospect of this defacement of their pretty window. The girls talked the ...
— A Patriotic Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil



Words linked to "Defacement" :   harm, scathe, disfiguration, hurt, deface, disfigurement, damage



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