• Complection

    Full definition of complection

    Noun

    complection

    (plural complections)
    1. Obsolete spelling of complexion
      • circa 1534 Desiderius Erasmus, 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 complectionThat causeth all day such devision.
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