Definition of "uncomeliness" [uncomeliness]

• The state or condition of being uncomely; unattractiveness. (noun)

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• "All the make-up that she slathers upon the old, dried-up race track of her face is not enough to erase what is ultimately an essential uncomeliness."
• "Indeed, he chose me as his messenger to thee, because of my uncomeliness and loathsomeness in his jealous love of thee; else hath he Mamelukes and negro slaves, pages, eunuchs and attendants out of number, each goodlier than other."
• "Nay, further, as Xenophon observed truly, that all other affections, though they raise the mind, yet they do it by distorting and uncomeliness of ecstasies or excesses; but only love doth exalt the mind, and nevertheless at the same instant doth settle and compose it: so in all other excellences, though they advance nature, yet they are subject to excess."