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cunctations

cunctations is the plural of cunctation.

Meaning of cunctation

Noun

cunctation (countable and uncountable, plural cunctations)

  1. (obsolete) Delay, hesitation, procrastination.
    • And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division...a. 1603, Francis Bacon, Discourse in the Praise of Queen Elizabeth
    Synonyms:
    dilation, hold-up

Questions about cunctations

What is cunctations the plural of?
Cunctations is the plural of cunctation.

Words near cunctations in the dictionary

  1. Cunas
  2. cunca
  3. Cuncan
  4. cunch
  5. cunctation
  6. cunctations
  7. cunctatious
  8. cunctative
  9. cunctator
  10. cunctators
  11. cunctatorship

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