blemishment
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
blemishment (usually uncountable, plural blemishments)
- The state of being blemished; disgrace or damage.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 36:
- For dread of blame and honours blemishment.
References[edit]
- “blemishment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.