Definition of "wem"

"It is even so," he added, as he gazed on the Sub-Prior with astonishment; "neither wem nor wound — not so much as a rent in his frock!"

1822, sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]), Historical romances of the author of Waverley, page 513

The lawe of the lord is without wem, and conuertith soulis : the witnessyng of the lord is feithful, and gyueth wisdom to litle children.

1846, William Maskell, Monumenta ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, page 8

That "whole art" consisted in putting together about six strophes of poesy so that the words and the tune should be welded together without joint and without wem.

1934, Ezra Pound, ABC of reading, page 39

[…] but it is a perfect illustration of the vision which haunted Blake all his days,—the vision of Paradise, an earthly Paradise in which there is neither wem nor wrinkle, which basks in the radiance of its own innocence.

1936, Blanche Mary Kelly, The Well of English