Meanings
noundeturpation (countable and uncountable, plural deturpations)
plural deturpations
- countableobsoleteuncountableA defilement, an act of making foul.
the remaining part have passed through […]the corrections and deturpations and mistakes of transcribers
1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC
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