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defiliations

defiliations is the plural of defiliation.

Meaning of defiliation

Noun

defiliation (countable and uncountable, plural defiliations)

  1. The separation of a child from its parents.
    • […] the tales of fairy-spiriting may shadow a lamentable verity, and the recovery of the young Montagu be but a solitary instance of good fortune, out of many irreparable and hopeless defiliations.1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC

Questions about defiliations

What is defiliations the plural of?
Defiliations is the plural of defiliation.

Words near defiliations in the dictionary

  1. defilers
  2. defiles
  3. defilest
  4. defileth
  5. defiliation
  6. defiliations
  7. defiling
  8. defilingly
  9. DeFilippis
  10. DeFilippises
  11. DeFilippo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defiliations (page history and authors); defiliation (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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