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imminution

imminution noun: reduction; lessening; decrease.

Noun

imminution (countable and uncountable, plural imminutions)

  1. (obsolete) reduction; lessening; decrease.
    • No ſhade of change, no imminution, / No nor increaſe1647, Henry More, “Psychozoia, or The First Part of the Song of the Soul, Containing a Christiano-Platonicall Display of Life. Cant[o] I.”, in Philosophicall Poems, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […]...
    • and did not a Providence continually overſee and ſecure them from all alteration or imminution1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 52

Forms of imminution

pluralimminutions

Origin of imminution

From Latin imminutio, from imminuere, imminutum (“to lessen”), from im- (“in”) + minuere.

Questions about imminution

What does imminution mean?
Imminution means reduction; lessening; decrease.
What part of speech is imminution?
Imminution is a noun.
What is the plural of imminution?
The plural of imminution is imminutions.

Words near imminution in the dictionary

  1. immingled
  2. immingles
  3. immingling
  4. imminglings
  5. imminium
  6. imminution
  7. imminutions
  8. immiscibilities
  9. immiscibility
  10. immiscible
  11. immiscibly

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