visnomy

English

Noun

visnomy (countable and uncountable, plural visnomies)

Obsolete form of physiognomy.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
  With sorrow dimmed and deform'd it were ,
  The goodly ymage of your visnomy

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