marring
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Etymology 1
Verb
marring
- present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- […] Hath all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?
From Tripolis, from Mexico, from England,
From Lisbon, Barbary, and India?
And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch
Of merchant-marring rocks?
Etymology 2
Noun
marring (plural marrings)
- Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.
- 1985, Samuel R. Delany, Flight from Nevèrÿon:
- Unable to read even as much of them as the scamps who wrote them and could read nothing more, the smuggler had finally trained himself to ignore them; they were marrings to be overlooked while the eye was out for other, more meaningful detail.
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