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disfeature, v.|dɪsˈfiːtjʊə(r)|
[f. dis- 7 a or d + feature n. Cf. the parallel defeature, and OF. deffaiturer.]
trans. To mar the features of; to disfigure, deface. Hence disˈfeatured, disˈfeaturing ppl. adjs.; disˈfeaturement.
1659Lady Alimony ii. ii. in Hazl. Dodsley XIV. 291 For fear she should disfeature the comeliness of her body. 1813Coleridge Remorse iii. ii, The goodly face of Nature Hath one disfeaturing stain the less upon it. 1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 34 Through the steets they ran with flying hair, Disfeatured in their grief. 1879J. Todhunter Alcestis 57 The prey of pale disfeaturing death. 1884H. S. Holland Good Friday Addr. 77 The horror..of disfeaturement, of defilement, of impotence, to one Who was Himself Life. 1886Sir F. Doyle Remin. 275, I should be sorry to hear that it [that country] had been entirely disfeatured. |