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defeature
/dɪˈfiːtjʊə(ɹ)/
noun 2verb 1
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1VERB + DEFEATURE
loves
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noun
1
Defeat, overthrow, ruin.
This mischiefe framd, for their first loves defeature
verb
1
To deform.
noun
1
Disfigurement, defacement, deformation.
What ruins are in me that can be found, / By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground / of my defeatures.
But no discovery was made, for no volley of reproach was uttered, and could they have looked in their mother's face they might have seen that strange defeatures were written there.
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This mischiefe framd, for their first loves defeature
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What ruins are in me that can be found, / By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground / of my defeatures.
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But no discovery was made, for no volley of reproach was uttered, and could they have looked in their mother's face they might have seen that strange defeatures were written there.
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