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▪ I. defacing, vbl. n.|dɪˈfeɪsɪŋ| [-ing1.] The action of the verb deface; defacement.
c1400Test. Love i. (1560) 273/1 The defacing to you is verily imaginable. 1543–4Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 10 For satisfaction of any suche breakyng and defacyng of the grounde. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 50 Proclamation..against defacing of Monuments. a1718Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 686 To preserve them from the Defacings of Time. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxviii. 171 So your household names no rust nor seamy defacing Soil this day. ▪ II. deˈfacing, ppl. a. [-ing2.] That defaces; disfiguring; † destroying, etc.
1583M. Roydon Commend. Verses in Watson Poems (Arb.) 35 Reproofe with his defacing crewe Treades vnderfoote that rightly should aspyre. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. vi. 176 The defacing mound [at Waterloo] was not then built. 1887Times 27 Aug. 10/2 He asks for a removal of the defacing advertisements. Hence deˈfacingly adv., in a defacing manner.
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