Associations to the word «Defacement»
Noun
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Wiktionary
DEFACEMENT, noun. An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
DEFACEMENT, noun. An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
DEFACEMENT, noun. (heraldry) (vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.
Dictionary definition
DEFACEMENT, noun. The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something; "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.