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Definition of Marring
1. mar [v] - See also: mar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marring
Literary usage of Marring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trial Evidence: The Rules of Evidence Applicable on the Trial of Civil by Austin Abbott (1880)
"marring the document."]—When a revocation by burning, cancelling, tearing, or
obliterating, is relied on, it must appear that the testator had testamentary ..."
2. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs by Crawford Howell Toy (1899)
"Bickell omits the verse as marring the strophic structure of the paragraph ; but
this difficulty disappears in the arrangement here adopted. 10-19. ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1896)
"The above circles and squares are all perfectly transposable, without marring
the harmony of arrangement of the numbers within the figures. ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"Making or marring of things military. AW Driving of a nail. Scl. Am. 100: 428.
Je. 5, '09. Graveyard«. See Cemeteries. Gravitation. A. Pollock. 19th Cent. ..."
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