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eluctation

eluctation noun: a struggling out of any difficulty.

Noun

eluctation (countable and uncountable, plural eluctations)

  1. (obsolete) A struggling out of any difficulty.
    • Ye do, in common, sue to God for us, as your poor fellow-members, for our happy eluctation out of those miseries and temptations1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in...
    • There is nothing more acceptable unto the ingenious world than this noble eluctation of truth1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

Forms of eluctation

pluraleluctations

Origin of eluctation

From Latin eluctatio.

Questions about eluctation

What does eluctation mean?
Eluctation means a struggling out of any difficulty.
What part of speech is eluctation?
Eluctation is a noun.
What is the plural of eluctation?
The plural of eluctation is eluctations.

Words near eluctation in the dictionary

  1. elucidatory
  2. eluct
  3. eluctability
  4. eluctable
  5. eluctableness
  6. eluctation
  7. eluctations
  8. elucted
  9. elucting
  10. elucts
  11. elucubrate

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