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ingannation

ingannation noun: cheating; deception.

Noun

ingannation (countable and uncountable, plural ingannations)

  1. (obsolete) Cheating; deception.
    • Thus having been deceived by themselves, and continually deluded by others, they must needs be stuffed with errors […] whereunto whosoever shall resigne their reasons, either from the root of deceit in themselves, or inability to resist such triviall ingannations from others; although their...1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9
    • While I am not able by any kind of searching to find out God, in the sense of the religions, while I get no glimpse whatever of any source of nature, and refuse to beguile myself or others with any ingannation or pretence on the subject, I have nevertheless as deep and as constraining a faith as...1877, Nathaniel Ramsay Waters, Through Rome On: A Memoir of Christian and Extra-Christian Experience, New York: C.P. Somerby, page 199

Forms of ingannation

pluralingannations

Origin of ingannation

From Italian ingannazione, nominal form derived from ingannare (“deceive, cheat, betray”) from Vulgar Latin ingannāre, from Latin gannō.

Questions about ingannation

What does ingannation mean?
Ingannation means cheating; deception.
What part of speech is ingannation?
Ingannation is a noun.
What is the plural of ingannation?
The plural of ingannation is ingannations.

Words near ingannation in the dictionary

  1. Ingalsbe
  2. Ingalsbes
  3. ingame
  4. ingang
  5. ingangs
  6. ingannation
  7. ingannations
  8. Ingarsby
  9. ingas
  10. ingassing
  11. ingate

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