defaced, ppl. a.
(dɪˈfeɪst)
[-ed1.]
Disfigured, marred, destroyed, blotted out, etc.: see deface.
| 1776 Adam Smith W.N. i. v. (1869) I. 43 One-and-twenty worn and defaced shillings. 1796 Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. VIII. 83 With defaced manufactures, with a ruined commerce. 1845–6 Trench Huls. Lect. Ser. i. iv. 57 The idea of a..defaced and yet not wholly effaced image of God in man. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. ix. 61 Defaced statuary. |
Hence deˈfacedness.
| 1668 Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 109 To recover the defacedness of God: to be again made like him, as once I was. |