Dictionary entry

Disfigurement

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐fig″ure‐ment (?), n. 1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton.

2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.

Uncommon expressions... are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.