The act or result of blemishing something; a marking or imperfection.
Archaic or rare formation using 'blemish' with the '-ment' suffix, which typically creates nouns from verbs indicating an action or its result, following patterns like 'establish' → 'establishment.'
This word is so rare it barely survives in English, but it shows how productive our '-ment' suffix is—almost any verb can theoretically become a noun this way, yet we usually stick with simpler forms like 'the blemishing' instead.
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