Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being ill-favored; ugliness; deformity.
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Examples
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Sin and corruption have made mad work in our bodies as well as in our souls; 'tis sin commonly that is the cause of all that deformity and ill-favoredness that now cleaveth to us, and that rendereth us so dishonorable at our death.
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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Could one touch of such love for her come in a word of look of his, why, he might turn into her ill-favoredness, she would know nothing of it, being dead to joy.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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