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emption

emption noun: the act of buying; purchase.

Noun

emption (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The act of buying; purchase.
    • There is a diſpute among the lawyers, whe ther Glaucus's exchanging the golden armour with the brazen one of Tydides, was emption or commutation.1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures
    • After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a...1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28

Origin of emption

From Latin emptio, from emere (“to buy”).

Words formed from emption

Questions about emption

What does emption mean?
Emption means the act of buying; purchase.
What part of speech is emption?
Emption is a noun.

Words near emption in the dictionary

  1. emptinesses
  2. empting
  3. emptings
  4. emptins
  5. emptio venditio
  6. emption
  7. emptional
  8. emptive
  9. emptor
  10. emptors
  11. empts

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