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abreptions

abreptions is the plural of abreption.

Meaning of abreption

Noun

abreption (plural abreptions)

  1. (archaic) A snatching away.
    • Who now and then are under an error, having failings, imperfections, and shortnesses […] You never find these men are called Sinners; neither are the infirmities of the regenerate, the sincere and upright-hearted called Sins, such as these sudden incursions and abreptions, when their thoughts are...1751, Benjamin Whichcote, The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote, D. D., page 135

Questions about abreptions

What is abreptions the plural of?
Abreptions is the plural of abreption.

Words near abreptions in the dictionary

  1. abrenunciation
  2. abrenunciations
  3. Abreo
  4. Abreos
  5. abreption
  6. abreptions
  7. abrest
  8. Abreu
  9. abreugraphy
  10. Abreus
  11. abreuvoir

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