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averruncation

averruncation noun: (The act of) warding off, averting (something evil).

Noun

averruncation (countable and uncountable, plural averruncations)

  1. (archaic, rare) (The act of) warding off, averting (something evil).
    • Quest[ion]. Whether averruncation of Epidemicall diseases, by Telesmes, be feisable and lawfull ? Answ[er]. [etc.]1649, Iohn Robinson, Miscellaneous Propositions and Quæres, R. Royston, ch. 10, page 29
    • BY Theurgick or Telestick Rites they conceived that they could procure a communication with the good Dæmons, and expulsion or averruncation of the bad.1662, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy, Thomas Dring, page 52
  2. Eradication, uprooting.

Examples of averruncation in a sentence

  • […] Pliny allows them [sc. mice] to have been always an ill omen, and therefore you should be advised to prepare against it either by averruncation or traps.1726, Jonathan Swift, The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., volume III, G. Bell and Sons, published 1912, page 349:
  • […] I believe / many failed in their averruncation / of Rodomonte's assaults and they would achieve / nothing more than the early termination / of lives they could have enjoyed or put to use.2009, David R. Slavitt tr. Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation, Harvard University Press →ISBN, Canto XXIX.38., page...

Forms of averruncation

pluralaverruncations

Origin of averruncation

From averruncate + -ion.

Questions about averruncation

What does averruncation mean?
Averruncation means (The act of) warding off, averting (something evil).
How do you use averruncation in a sentence?
[…] Pliny allows them [sc. mice] to have been always an ill omen, and therefore you should be advised to prepare against it either by averruncation or traps.
What part of speech is averruncation?
Averruncation is a noun.
What is the plural of averruncation?
The plural of averruncation is averruncations.

Words near averruncation in the dictionary

  1. Averroists
  2. averruncate
  3. averruncated
  4. averruncates
  5. averruncating
  6. averruncation
  7. averruncations
  8. averruncator
  9. averruncators
  10. avers
  11. Aversa

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