discomplexion

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verb

To taint or stain (change the complexion or shade of).

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Meanings

verbdiscomplexion (third-person singular simple present discomplexions, present participle discomplexioning, simple past and past participle discomplexioned)

present singular third person discomplexions · participle present discomplexioning · participle past discomplexioned · past discomplexioned

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo taint or stain (change the complexion or shade of).

    Then his band / May be disordered and transformed from lace / To cutwork; his rich clothes be discomplexioned / With blood, beside the infashionable slashes.

    1635 February 16 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), James Shirley, “The Coronation. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene i

Origin

From dis- + complexion.

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