Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of beauty or grace.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To deprive of beauty or grace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, rare To deprive of beauty or grace.
Etymologies
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Latin devenustatus, past participle of devenustare to disfigure; de + venustus lovely, graceful.
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