Complection vs Complexion - What's the difference?
complection | complexion | Alternative forms |
* , An epystell of ye famous doctor Erasmus of Roterdam , Thomas Godfray (London), p. 46,
* 1700 , , "The Knight's Tale" in Fables ancient and modern translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems , Tonson (London) p. 598,
The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.
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*: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.
The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.
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*: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.
(lb) The outward appearance of something.
Outlook, attitude, or point of view.
*1844 ,
*: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.
Complexion is a alternative form of complection.
As nouns the difference between complection and complexion
is that complection is obsolete spelling of lang=en while complexion is the combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.complection
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- All be ye not of one complection
- That causeth all day such devision.