Meaning of marredness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of being marred or spoilt.
   uncountable
2. Of a person, the state of being marred or cosseted.
   Northern-England, rare, uncountable

Examples

“But the feeling would be much stronger in the case of the marred Visage of Jesus, for the marredness of that Visage is to the Christian a part of its beauty.”

“I grew familiar with it by dawn-light and candlelight, to value its wan marredness more than beauty, to search⟳ for and to find⟳ in it that mother-pity which is the gift of so many childless women, and supremely the gift of such as have⟳ forsworn marriage from high and selfless motives.”

“... the present⟳ flawedness of human nature and the marredness of the physical world were interpreted as following upon a period of paradisal perfection that was brought to an end⟳ by a disastrous ancestral act.”

“I believe⟳ it's nowt nobbut their mardness an' their way o' livin ut causes these New York dolls to be so mich like⟳ faded waxwork, ut's been melted down for any sort⟳ of a face⟳, fro' a queen to a mermaid.”

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