blotch on the escutcheon

English

Noun

blotch on the escutcheon

  1. Alternative form of blot on the escutcheon.
    • 1751 December (indicated as 1752), Henry Fielding, chapter 5, in Amelia, volume III, London: […] [William Strahan] for A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, book VII, page 25:
      In the sin of adultery, for instance, hath the government provided any law to punish it; or doth the priest take any care to correct it? On the contrary, is the most notorious practice of it any detriment to a man’s fortune, or to his reputation in the world? doth it exclude from him any preferment in the state, I had almost said, in the church? Is it any blotch in his escutcheon, any bar to his honour?
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