2. Verb. (third-person singular of blemish) ¹
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Definition of Blemishes
1. blemish [v] - See also: blemish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blemishes
Literary usage of Blemishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Citrus Fruits: An Account of the Citrus Fruit Industry, with Special by John Eliot Coit (1915)
"It is well worth while, therefore, to make a study of the cull-heap, classifying
and determining the relative importance of the various blemishes which ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"It is greatly to be regretted that a book involving so much original work, and
containing so much that is really valuable, should be marred by blemishes ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"ministration is stained with the same blemishes; yet it CHAP. is discriminated
by peculiar merit: the antiquities of '"' the nations may be doubtful or ..."
4. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1849)
"... blemishes, and contradictions scattered through it, which seem to show him to
have been almost indifferent to contemporary success or posthumous fame. ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"nence, and in their lofty presence his minor blemishes are scarcely perceptible.
Surely we shall not find any type of character superior to this one among ..."
6. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1895)
"The use of electricity in the treatment of facial blemishes is followed by more
apparent and satisfactory results than the use of this agent for any other ..."
7. A Treatise on the Diseases of Children: With Directions for the Management by Michael Underwood, Marshall Hall (1835)
"And I have chosen this place for such observations as I have to offer on this
head, because the hare-lip, and some other blemishes remaining to be noticed, ..."
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