disembellishv.
/dɪsɪmˈbɛlɪʃ/ transitive. To deprive of embellishment or adornment.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > disfigure [verb (transitive)] > specific something immaterial
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desembellir, to disimbellish, disfigure.
1624 F. Quarles Sions Sonets i. 5 What if Afflictions doe dis-embellish My naturall glorie?
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. x. 24/2 Weep, not that the reign of wonder is done, and God's world all disembellished and prosaic.
1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 131 Embellish fact? This bard may disembellish yet improve!
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