2 uses
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Definition
to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way
- In other words, the humans are to be encouraged to regard as the basis for marriage a highly-coloured and distorted version of something the Enemy really promises as its result.Chapter 18 (83% in)
- Some rumour of it has reached the humans and a distorted account of it appears in the poet Milton, with the ridiculous addition that such changes of shape are a "punishment" imposed on us by the Enemy.Chapter 22 (89% in)
There are no more uses of "distort" in The Screwtape Letters.
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