blemished

verbflaw, disfigure

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Word Origin & History

early 14c., "to hurt, damage," from Old French blemiss- "to turn pale," extended stem of blemir, blesmir "to make pale; stain, discolor," also "to injure" (13c., Modern French blêmir), probably from Frankish *blesmjan "to cause to turn pale," or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *blas "shining, white," from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)).

The order of appearance of senses in Middle English is "hurt, damage;" "impair morally, sully" (late 14c.); "mar, spoil, injure" (early 15c.); "to mar the beauty or soundness of" (mid-15c.). Related: Blemished; blemishing.

Example Sentences forblemished

I didn't think, sir, you would have recommended my ladies a blemished horse like that.

Because Falsehood was blemished in having no feet, she was called mendacium or mendacity.

Your service of God will no more be mixed and blemished with imperfections.

There is the gross and the refined, the blemished and the perfect.

No one can be a priest who is maimed or blemished in any way.

Her parents were blemished with some of the frailties of that character.

Not a curve that was blemished by an angle or ruffled by asperities.

I pick by hand, and sort into three classes: large, medium, small and blemished.

The blemished larv tell me of a paunch already or on the point of being invaded.

Is there not much that answers to the offering of the lame and the sick, the blemished and the ill-favored?

blemished

defective

deformed

faulty

misshapen

blemished

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