Both Uses of
distort
in
The Screwtape Letters
- 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.†
Chpt 18 *distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
- 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.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way