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Definition of Blemishing
1. blemish [v] - See also: blemish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blemishing
Literary usage of Blemishing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock, William Symington (1874)
"Every sin is deforming and blemishing our own souls, which, as they are prime
creatures in the lower world, so they have greater cha of God: as if God had ..."
2. The Horse by William Youatt, Walker Watson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1874)
"... the sides are blistered, the body-clothes may be so contrived as to prevent
the animal from nibbling and blemishing the part, or blistering his muzzle. ..."
3. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1885)
"good being, became aware, by means of omniscience, of the blemishing operation
and the lies and falsehoods of the fiend, (14) and of this too, that is, ..."
4. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"... the earth like Pompeii; but their exact age or who made them can only be
conjectured. But worn, and cracked, without a history, and with the blemishing ..."
5. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"But neither being so vain as to fancy infallibility, nor so disingenuous as to
dissemble my mistakes for fear of blemishing my reputation, I have, ..."
6. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"... soul Was free from blemishing purpose. Yet proud wrath Leaped in dark flood
above the purer stream That strove to drown it: Anger seeks its prey, ..."
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