Alternativa stavningar
- (föråldrada ord) complection
- -tion
Uttal
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- IPA: /kəmˈplɛkʃən/
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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (obsolete, medicine) The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.
- The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.
- (figuratively) The outward appearance of something.
- Outlook, attitude, or point of view.
Exempel
- 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.
- a rugged complexion; a sunburnt complexion
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
- But the purely marginal jottings, done with no eye to the Memorandum Book, have a distinct complexion, and not only a distinct purpose, but none at all; this it is which imparts to them a value.
Böjningsformer
| Plural | complexions |