Completion vs Complexion - What's the difference?
completion | complexion |
The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
(label) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
(label) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
(label) The space resulting from such an act.
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.
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*: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.