[f. next: see -FICATION.]
1. The action or process of making ugly.
1820. Shelley, Œd. Tyr., I. 409. Where, for more glory, let the ceremony Take place of the uglification of the Queen.
1863. N. & Q., 3rd Ser. IV. 521. A more thorough uglification of our written or spoken language could hardly have been devised.
1890. Longm. Mag., March, 506. Their experiments in the science of comparative uglification.
2. That which renders ugly.
1893. Westm. Gaz., 8 April, 1/3. London … has no street architecture. It has no decorations, though it has many uglifications.
