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abstersions

abstersions is the plural of abstersion.

Meaning of abstersion

Noun

abstersion (countable and uncountable, plural abstersions)

  1. (archaic) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
    • Waverley ... was offered the patriarchal refreshment of a bath for the feet ... He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained To chafe the limb, and pour...1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since

Questions about abstersions

What is abstersions the plural of?
Abstersions is the plural of abstersion.

Words near abstersions in the dictionary

  1. absterse
  2. abstersed
  3. absterses
  4. abstersing
  5. abstersion
  6. abstersions
  7. abstersive
  8. abstersiveness
  9. abstersives
  10. abstersory
  11. absteyner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abstersions (page history and authors); abstersion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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