complexion

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COMPLEXION, noun 1. Involution; a complex state. 2. The color of the skin, particularly of the face; the color of the external parts of a body or thing; as a fair complexion; a dark complexion; the complexion of the sky. 3. The temperament, habitude, or natural disposition of the body; the peculiar cast of the constitution, which gives it a particular physical character; a medical term, but used to denote character, or description; as, men of this or that complexion Tis ill, Though different your complexions are, The family of heaven for men should war.
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