deturpation

English

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Noun

deturpation (countable and uncountable, plural deturpations)

  1. (obsolete) A defilement, an act of making foul.
    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
      the remaining part have passed through […] the corrections and deturpations and mistakes of transcribers

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