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emunctions

emunctions is the plural of emunction.

Meaning of emunction

Noun

emunction (countable and uncountable, plural emunctions)

  1. (formal) The act of wiping or blowing one's nose.
    • For that would have allowed me, before parading in public certain habits such as the finger in the nose, the scratching of the balls, digital emunction and the peripatetic piss, to refer them to the first rules of a reasoned theory.1955, Samuel Beckett, Molloy, page 25

Questions about emunctions

What is emunctions the plural of?
Emunctions is the plural of emunction.

Words near emunctions in the dictionary

  1. emulsor
  2. emulsors
  3. emuna
  4. emunah
  5. emunction
  6. emunctions
  7. emunctories
  8. emunctory
  9. emundation
  10. emunge
  11. emunged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emunctions (page history and authors); emunction (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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