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Definition
the human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British);
or: the appearance conveyed by a person's face
or: the appearance conveyed by a person's face
- —We are oft to blame in this,— 'tis too much prov'd,—that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The Devil himself.3.1 — Act 3 Scene 1 — A room in the Castle (26% in)
- 'tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: these, indeed, seem; For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — Elsinore (a room of state in the castle) (32% in)
- Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wan'd; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?2.2 — Act 2 Scene 2 — A room in the Castle (92% in)
- Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence?3.3 — Act 3 Scene 3 — A room in the Castle (49% in)
- Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage-vows As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul, and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow; Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.3.4 — Act 3 Scene 4 — Another room in the castle (26% in)
There are no more uses of "visage" in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
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