Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of blot on the escutcheon.
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In the sin of adultery, for instance, hath the government provided any law to punish it; or doth the priest take any care to correct it? On the contrary, is the most notorious practice of it any detriment to a man’s fortune, or to his reputation in the world? doth it exclude from him any preferment in the state, I had almost said, in the church? Is it any blotch in his escutcheon, any bar to his honour?
1751 December (indicated as 1752), Henry Fielding, chapter 5, in Amelia, volume III, London: […] [William Strahan] for A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, book VII, page 25
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blotch on the escutcheon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blotch%20on%20the%20escutcheon
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