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deordination

deordination noun: disorder; dissoluteness.

Noun

deordination (plural deordinations)

  1. (obsolete) disorder; dissoluteness
    • concupiſcence is the deordination of the will1611, Robert Abbot, A Defence of the Reformed Catholicke of M.W. Perkins […]
    • inadvertency, and tyranny, had besmeared her; and being thus cleansed and washed , is accused by the Roman parties of novelty , and condemned , because she refuses to run into the same excess of riot and deordination1820-1822, Reginald Heber, Life of Jeremy Taylor

Forms of deordination

pluraldeordinations

Origin of deordination

Latin deordinatio (“depraved morality”).

Questions about deordination

What does deordination mean?
Deordination means disorder; dissoluteness.
What part of speech is deordination?
Deordination is a noun.
What is the plural of deordination?
The plural of deordination is deordinations.

Words near deordination in the dictionary

  1. deorbit burn
  2. deorbit burns
  3. deorbited
  4. deorbiting
  5. deorbits
  6. deordination
  7. deordinations
  8. deorganization
  9. deorganizations
  10. deorganize
  11. deorganized

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