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maculation
noun 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
black, heavy
MACULATION + NOUN
heart, thy
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
noun
1
The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.
I speak not ‘be thou true,’ as fearing thee, For I will throw my glove to Death himself, That there’s no maculation in thy heart:
1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Holy Terror” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, p. 218, He could make out a mottled pattern on the hollow cheeks—the maculations of decay.
2
A pattern of spots.
Females [of the species Speyeria nokomis] are cream above with heavy black maculation accompanied by much dark suffusion.
1990, Mason E. Hale, A Synopsis of the Lichen Genus Xanthoparmelia (Vainio) Hale (Ascomycotina, Parmeliaceae), Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 195, [This lichen] species […] is recognized by […] more or less distinct maculation on the upper surface, and pale brown lower surface.
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I speak not ‘be thou true,’ as fearing thee, For I will throw my glove to Death himself, That there’s no maculation in thy heart:
Wiktionary02
1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Holy Terror” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, p. 218, He could make out a mottled pattern on the hollow cheeks—the maculations of decay.
Wiktionary03
Females [of the species Speyeria nokomis] are cream above with heavy black maculation accompanied by much dark suffusion.
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