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difflation

difflation noun: a blowing apart or away.

Noun

difflation (usually uncountable, plural difflations)

  1. (obsolete, usually) A blowing apart or away.
    • The famous author of the Commentary on the 12th of the first section of aphorisms, affirms, that the meat is proportioned to the difflation, and, Com. 15th, that there is a greater difflation in the winter-time, therefore it is requisite there should be more meat eaten; it is therefore requisite...1807, Sir John Sinclair, The Code of Health and Longevity

Forms of difflation

pluraldifflations

Origin of difflation

From Latin difflatio, from Latin difflare, difflatum (“to disperse by blowing”).

Questions about difflation

What does difflation mean?
Difflation means a blowing apart or away.
What part of speech is difflation?
Difflation is a noun.
What is the plural of difflation?
The plural of difflation is difflations.

Words near difflation in the dictionary

  1. diffing
  2. diffinitive
  3. diffission
  4. diffix
  5. diffixes
  6. difflation
  7. difflations
  8. Diffley
  9. Diffleys
  10. diffluence
  11. diffluences

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