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moration

moration noun: a delay.

Noun

moration

  1. (obsolete) A delay.
    • we ſhall ballance the ſame with the concernment of it motion, and time of revolution, and ſay he is more powerful in the Northern Hemisphere, and in the Apogeum, for therein his moration is ſlower1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of moration

Latin moratio.

Questions about moration

What does moration mean?
Moration means a delay.
What part of speech is moration?
Moration is a noun.

Words near moration in the dictionary

  1. Morataya
  2. Moratayas
  3. morate
  4. Morath
  5. Moraths
  6. moration
  7. moratoria
  8. moratorial
  9. moratorium
  10. moratoriums
  11. moratory

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