evilfavouredness
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[edit]Noun
[edit]evilfavouredness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Ugliness or deformity.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 17:1:
- Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullocke, or sheepe wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
- 1623, Religion and Society in Early Modern England: A Sourcebook, published 2005, →ISBN, "The Homily Against Contention and Brawling", page 164:
- This day (good Christian people) shall be declared unto you, the unprofitableness and shameful unhonesty of contention, strife and debate, to the intent, that when you shall see as it were in a table painted before your eyes, the evilfavouredness and deformity of this most detestable vice, your stomaches may be moved to rise against it, and to detest and abhor that sin, which is so much to be hated, and pernicious, and hurtful to all men.