blemishment

noun

blemishment

noun

Etymology From blemish + -ment.

1

Usually The state of being blemished; disgrace or damage.

For dread of blame and honours blemishment.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 36:

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