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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1420, 1490-1499, 1551-1597
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Deformité, n. Also: -yté, -itie, -aty. [ME. deformitee (c 1400), OF. deformité, L. dēformitas. Cf. Difformité.]
1. Deformity, disfigurement, marring.c1420 Wynt. iv. 1596.
Fra he had sene … thare reawté Than turnyd in deformyté c1420 Ib. v. 3994.
Bot gyff he Ware hale wyth-owte deformyte a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1459.
All falȝeand fairenes is bot deformite 1551 Hamilton Catechism 122.
All the deformiteis and spottis of syn, quhilk blekkis our saule 1560 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 327.
[Encumbering the streets] to the great deformaty of this guid toune 1597 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 209.
The awld Tolbuith … lyes yitt waist to the greitt skayth and deformitie of the haill toun
2. Disorder.1490 Irland Mir. fol. 354 b.
This haill realme that this mony ȝere has bene in gret deformite 1568 Pref. Lyndesay 4.
King Correctioun. … reformand sindrie deformities in his realme, passit to the tryall of his clergie
