marring

noun

marring

noun

Etymology From mar + -ing.

1

Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.

Unable to read even as much of them as the scamps who wrote them and could read nothing more, the smuggler had finally trained himself to ignore them; they were marrings to be overlooked while the eye was out for other, more meaningful detail.1985, Samuel R. Delany, Flight from Nevèrÿon:

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