marring

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English

Etymology 1

Verb

marring

  1. present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling.
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      […] Hath all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?
      From Tripolis, from Mexico, from England,
      From Lisbon, Barbary, and India?
      And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch
      Of merchant-marring rocks?

Etymology 2

From mar +‎ -ing.

Noun

marring (plural marrings)

  1. Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.
    • 1985, Samuel R. Delany, Flight from Nevèrÿon:
      Unable to read even as much of them as the scamps who wrote them and could read nothing more, the smuggler had finally trained himself to ignore them; they were marrings to be overlooked while the eye was out for other, more meaningful detail.

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