expergefaction
expergefaction noun: an awakening.
Noun
expergefaction (plural expergefactions)
- An awakening.
- “Thouſands drink in the Love of theſe, together with their Parents milk, and are enamoured on them from their very Cradles; yet I am ſure the affectations of theſe Arts, cannot be derived from Præexiſtence; they cannot poſſibly be any new expergefactions of dormient prepenſions, or refloreſcencies...1667, E. W. A. M., No præexistence: or, a ... dissertation against the hypothesis of humane souls living in a state antecedaneous to this, page 58
- “Life are infinitely contracted, and that ſhe lies aſleep or dead to her largeſt Faculties ; and that therefore the excitation of them is her expergefaction into infinitely a more ample Sphere of Life.”1692, H. More, edited by J. Worthington, Discourses on several texts of Scripture. By the late Pious and Learned Henry More, D. D., page 241
Forms of expergefaction
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Origin of expergefaction
From Latin expergefactiō, from expergefaciō.
Questions about expergefaction
- What does expergefaction mean?
- Expergefaction means an awakening.
- What part of speech is expergefaction?
- Expergefaction is a noun.
- What is the plural of expergefaction?
- The plural of expergefaction is expergefactions.
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