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complection
complection
English
Noun
complection (plural complections)
- Obsolete spelling of complexion
- c. 1534, Desiderius Eramus, An epystell of ye famous doctor Erasmus of Roterdam, Thomas Godfray (London), p. 46,
- What nedeth it here to reherse divers diseases and sicknesses / ye weaknesse of olde men and yonge chyldren / povertie / & the certayn peculyar nature & complection of bodies.
- 1700, John Dryden, "The Knight's Tale" in Fables ancient and modern translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, Tonson (London) p. 598,
- All be ye not of one complection
- That causeth all day such devision.
- c. 1534, Desiderius Eramus, An epystell of ye famous doctor Erasmus of Roterdam, Thomas Godfray (London), p. 46,