marring

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marring^¹

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verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling. […]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?

marring^²

noun marrings

Something that mars or spoils; a blemish. 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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@misc{marring_2026,
  title = {marring},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/marring},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}