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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1531-1540
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Difformité, -yté, n. [ME. diformyté (c 1440), dyfformyté, var. of Deformité.] Disfigurement, marring. —1531 Bell. Boece I. p. iii.
Deploring … evill conswetudis brocht in this realme, to the gret difformite of the pepill 1540 Acts II. 374/1.
Tuiching the reparationis and mending of difformyteis within the towne of Edinburgh
