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disfigurement

Noun

Meaning

Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.

That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement. John of Kronstadt

I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying. Geraldine Brooks

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement. Harlan Coben

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement. Tony Parsons

the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion Source: Internet

he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape Source: Internet

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