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deturpations

deturpations is the plural of deturpation.

Meaning of deturpation

Noun

deturpation (countable and uncountable, plural deturpations)

  1. (obsolete) A defilement, an act of making foul.
    • the remaining part have passed through […]the corrections and deturpations and mistakes of transcribers1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC

Questions about deturpations

What is deturpations the plural of?
Deturpations is the plural of deturpation.

Words near deturpations in the dictionary

  1. deturpate
  2. deturpated
  3. deturpates
  4. deturpating
  5. deturpation
  6. deturpations
  7. deturs
  8. detusk
  9. detusked
  10. detusking
  11. detusks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deturpations (page history and authors); deturpation (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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