LekhoriLekhoriA small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
A moral defect; a character flaw.
As piety is the peculiar ornament of old people, so the want of it is a peculiar blemish in their character.
To spoil the appearance of.
we see ordinarie examples by this licence which wonderfully blemisheth the authoritie and lustre of our law, never to stay upon one sentence, but to run from one to another judge, to decide one same case.
To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.
From Middle English blemisshen, blemissen, from Old French blemiss-, stem of Old French blemir, blesmir (“make pale, injure, wound, bruise”) (French blêmir), from Old Frankish *blesmijan, *blasmijan (...
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There had nothing passed betwixt us that might blemish reputation.