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Definition of Disfiguration

1. Noun. An appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen. "Suffering from facial disfiguration"

2. Noun. The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something. "He objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape"

Definition of Disfiguration

1. n. The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.

Definition of Disfiguration

1. Noun. The act of disfiguring, spoiling the appearance of something or someone; the state of being disfigured. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disfiguration

disfavourers disfavouring disfavours disfeature disfeatured disfeatures disfeaturing disfellowshiped disfellowshiping disfellowshipment

disfellowshipments disfellowshipped disfellowshipping disfellowships disfiguration (current term) disfigurations disfigure disfigured disfigurement disfigurements

disfigurer disfigurers disfigures disfiguring disfiguringly disfix disflesh disfleshed disfleshes

Literary usage of Disfiguration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored by Georg August Schweinfurth (1874)
"disfiguration of the lips by Mittoo women. Fetters of fashion. Love of music. I SPENT December and January in a tour of considerable extent through the ..."

2. The Programme of Modernism: A Reply to the Encyclical of Pius X., Pascendi by Ernesto Buonaiuti, Alfred Leslie Lilley (1908)
"(d) Transfiguration and disfiguration. With these terms the Encyclical designates the consequences which Modernists, as it conceives ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1869)
"Among the 18 favourable cases of variola, there were five in which disfiguration resulted, in three of which it was very marked, in one slight, ..."

4. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1854)
"I have seen men writhing, in India, in the agony of spasmodic cholera, but the spasms are nothing contrasted with the disfiguration with which the New ..."

5. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1890)
"disfiguration, due in part to an extensive ectropion, consecutive to a syphilis mutilans, and very favourably modified by means of grafting, ..."

6. Military Commission to Europe in 1855 and 1856: Report of Major Alfred by Alfred Mordecai, Julius Schön, Josiah Gorgas (1861)
"Still, one circumstance operates unfavorably on the latter of these two properties—that is, the partial disfiguration of the ball by the rammer, ..."

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