Definitions for defacement
de·face·ment

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. defacement, disfigurement, disfigurationnoun

   the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something

   "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. defacementnoun

   An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.

   Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.

2. defacementnoun

   An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.

   The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.

3. defacementnoun

   A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.

   Note: The word "defacement" in heraldry and vexillology has none of the bad connotations its other meanings have.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Defacementnoun

   Violation; injury; rasure; abolition; destruction.

   Etymology: from deface.

   But what is this image, and how is it defaced? The poor men of Lyons will tell you, that the image of God is purity; and the defacement, sin. Francis Bacon, Holy War.

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1. defacement

   Defacement refers to the act of vandalizing, damaging or disfiguring something, especially public property or another person's possessions such as a website. It involves altering the original appearance or condition of an object, often with negative or harmful intent, in a way that reduces its value, function, or aesthetic appeal.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Defacementnoun

   the act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration

2. Defacementnoun

   that which mars or disfigures

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Defacement

   Defacement is a term used in heraldry and vexillology to refer to the addition of a symbol or charge to another flag. For example, the Australian flag is the British Blue Ensign defaced with the Southern Cross in the fly and the Commonwealth Star in the lower hoist quarter, beneath the Union Flag. In the context of vexillology, "deface" carries no negative connotations, in contrast to general usage. It simply indicates differentiation of the flag from that of another owner by addition of elements. For example, many state flags are formed by defacing the national flag with a coat of arms. In countries which pass though changes of regime with variant ideological orientations - all of which, despite their differences, claim allegiance to a common national heritage expressed in a venerated National Flag - it happens that a new regime defaces that flag with its own specific emblem while keeping the basic flag design unchanged. Such changing ideological emblems appeared over time, among others, on the flags of Italy, Hungary, Romania, Germany Ethiopia and Iran. As a result, during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Romanian Revolution of 1989, insurgents tore out of the national flag the emblem of the regime which they opposed, and waved the flag itself with which they identified.

How to pronounce defacement?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of defacement in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of defacement in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=defacement
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Defacement
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=defacement
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defacement
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=defacement