Sekirov Dictionary

complexion

/kəmˈplɛkʃən/

noun 5
verb 1
forms 3

noun5

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The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.
- Prince of Morocco: Mislike me not for my complexion, / The shadow’d livery of the burnish’d sun, / To whom I am a neighbour, and near bred. […] — 1596
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(figurative) The outward appearance of something.
- It was a little unfortunate that the fib unfibbed gave their consultations something the complexion of that close understanding which exists between penitent and confessor. — 1910
•
Outlook, attitude, or point of view.
- That minister was galbet, or admiral of the realm, very much in his master’s confidence, and a person well versed in affairs, but of a morose and sour complexion. — 1726
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An arrangement.
- Second there is the level at which the energy or velocity components of each molecule are specified. He calls this a Komplexion, which we translate literally as complexion. — 1909
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(no longer used) The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.
- Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed / But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous, / Which in his cold complexion doe breed / A filthy blood […] — 1590

verb1

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To give a colour to.
- From the pale refinement of her genteel heroine to the sallow complexioning of poor white trash, Stowe colors her narrative with the hues of the body. — 2003

forms

complexioned · complexioning · complexions

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