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Definition of Misshapenness
1. Noun. An affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed.
Generic synonyms: Affliction
Specialized synonyms: Arnold-chiari Deformity, Clawfoot, Pes Cavus, Cleft Foot, Clubfoot, Talipes, Chicken Breast, Pigeon Breast, Plagiocephaly, Scaphocephaly, Valgus, Varus
Derivative terms: Deformed, Misshapen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misshapenness
Literary usage of Misshapenness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"You that came to my aid with a good sword and a better courage — unless that ye
recoil from my misshapenness — come to my heart." And so saying, the young ..."
2. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1910)
"It was as if a deformed creature had received the present of a looking-glass and
for the first time beheld his misshapenness. " — Matheson. ..."
3. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1885)
"Was he to blame for the misshapenness, the deformity, the ungainliness ?
What history was there in that decrepitude !—a history stretching back twenty, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society by Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"To do violence to a simile of Plato, the Glaucus which is the mind owes its
misshapenness to being made up of myriad imperfect growths of its own substance ..."
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