BLEMISH • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Blemish

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/blˈɛmɪʃ/ Listen

noun

Blemish n. (pl. blemishes) Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation. "He shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish." "The reliefs of an envious man are those little blemishes and imperfections that discover themselves in an illustrious character."

Synonyms: Spot; speck; flaw; deformity; stain; defect; fault; taint; reproach; dishonor; imputation; disgrace.

verb

Blemish v. t. (past & past part. blemished; pres. part. blemishing)

To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind. "Sin is a soil which blemisheth the beauty of thy soul."

To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame. "There had nothing passed between us that might blemish reputation."

See images of 'Blemish'

Etymology of 'Blemish'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Blemish" Quotes from Famous Books

... the telephone, and lay back with a whimsical smile, twisting his mouth. "The frosted ones are mine," he said to himself, "there will be no blight or spot or blemish ...

— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung

... dispraise must ever hold an high authority), but more narrowly will examine his parts: so that (as in a man) though altogether he may carry a presence full of majesty and beauty, perchance in some one defectious piece we may find a blemish: now in his parts, kinds, or species (as you list to term them), it is to be noted, that some poesies have coupled together two or three kinds, as tragical and comical, whereupon is risen the tragi-comical. Some in the like manner have mingled prose and verse, ...

— English literary criticism • Various

... of British administration in South Africa during the nineteenth century forms a blemish upon the record of the Victorian era that is at first sight difficult to understand. If success could be won in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, in India and in Egypt, why failure in South Africa? For failure it was. A century of wars, ...

— Lord Milner's Work in South Africa - From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 • W. Basil Worsfold

... among us have their failings, and it must be conceded of Mrs Prig, that if there were a blemish in the goodness of her disposition, it was a habit she had of not bestowing all its sharp and acid properties upon her patients (as a thoroughly amiable woman would have done), but of keeping a considerable ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... bore pretty much the same testimony, and so did the next. It was plain that John Mason was not the right kind of a man, and rather a blemish upon the village of Moorfield, notwithstanding he was one of the ...

— Off-Hand Sketches - a Little Dashed with Humor • T. S. Arthur

More quotes...