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habilitations

habilitations is the plural of habilitation.

Meaning of habilitation

Noun

habilitation (countable and uncountable, plural habilitations)

  1. Equipment; qualification.
    • For the things which we formerly have spoken of, are but habilitation arms: and what is habilitation without intention and act?1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC
  2. An act of habilitating.
  3. An academic qualification, prerequiring a PhD, required in order to gain tenure as a professor in some European universities; a thesis or dissertation presented to achieve the qualification.
    • At this same time Gadamer was at work on his habilitation with Heidegger. His habilitation, Plato's Dialectical Ethics, concerned Plato's understanding of the good, and its two leading concepts were dialogue and dialectic.1994, Robert J. Dostal, “The Experience of Truth for Gadamer and Heidegger: Taking Time and Sudden Lightning”, in Brice Wachterhauser, editor, Hermeneutics and Truth, page 60
  4. (US) The act of supplying money to work a mine.

Questions about habilitations

What is habilitations the plural of?
Habilitations is the plural of habilitation.

Words near habilitations in the dictionary

  1. habilitate
  2. habilitated
  3. habilitates
  4. habilitating
  5. habilitation
  6. habilitations
  7. habilitative
  8. habilitator
  9. habilitators
  10. habilitie
  11. habilities

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