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▪ I. marring, vbl. n.|ˈmɑːrɪŋ|
Forms: see mar v.
[OE. mierring, męrrung, f. mierran, męrran: see mar v. and -ing1.]
The action of the verb mar (in various senses); † squandering, waste; † hindrance; injury, impairment.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xx. 149 Ðylæs..se aᵹita for his goda mierringe ᵹielpe. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark, Argt. (1871) 5 Merrunga, seductiones. a1300Cursor M. 8779 Þai fand gret merring in þair merck, Þe wrightes þat suld rais þe werck. 1357Lay Folks Catech. 124 Withouten ony merryng of hir modirhede. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. 94 b, Of the traditions of men, and their marring of the Scripture, ariseth darkenes. 1649Milton Eikon. vi, The making or the marring of any Law. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 65 Man shrinks from the violent marring of his outward form.
▪ II. marring, ppl. a.|ˈmɑːrɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That mars. Hence ˈmarringly adv.
1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 677 This open expression..brings out marringly the lesson. 1836Gladstone in Morley Life (1903) I. ii. iii. 36 [Wordsworth] named the discrepancy between his [Shelley's] creed and his imagination as the marring idea of his works. 1891R. Dowling Isle of Surrey 256 Mottled with marring blotches of scorbutic red. |