colluctancy
colluctancy noun: synonym of colluctation: struggling, conflict, strife.
Noun
colluctancy (uncountable)
- Synonym of colluctation: struggling, conflict, strife.
- Thirdly, the Spirits are in their third ſtate of Volatility, when after a colluctancy with the groſſer Particles they have ſo ſubjugated and overcome them, that they are juſt upon wings, and ready to fly away; as in Wine when it is in the height of its fermentation, and in ſome part of our arterial...1664, Henry Power, “Microſcopical Obſervations: A Digreßion of the Animal Spirits”, in Experimental Philosophy, in Three Books […], London: Printed by T. Roycroft, for John Martin, and James Alleſtry...
- After struggling along with the difficulties and embarrassments occasioned by this immense loss of patronage, and enduring the colluctancy of the Boston anti-tariff committee, and the N. Y. Evening Post, just as the heart was ready to sink within us, help springs up where it was least expected...1828 April 29, “Domestic News: British Influence”, in Rutland Herald, volume 34, number 18, Rutland, Vt., page [2]
- Synonyms:
- colluctation
Synonyms of colluctancy
Origin of colluctancy
From Latin collū̆ctārī (“to struggle with”) + -ancy.
Questions about colluctancy
- What does colluctancy mean?
- Colluctancy means synonym of colluctation: struggling, conflict, strife.
- What part of speech is colluctancy?
- Colluctancy is a noun.
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