mutuation
mutuation noun: an act of borrowing or exchanging.
Noun
mutuation (countable and uncountable, plural mutuations)
- An act of borrowing or exchanging.
- A sheep may teach thee to foot a precipice, a goat to leap a chasm; for there is a mutuation between the great and the little, that the young do not see, and the proud will not own.1848, Thomas Hall, Rowland Bradshaw
- After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a...1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28
Forms of mutuation
| plural | mutuations |
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Origin of mutuation
From Latin mutuatio, from mutuare, mutuari (“to borrow”), from mutuus. See mutual.
Questions about mutuation
- What does mutuation mean?
- Mutuation means an act of borrowing or exchanging.
- What part of speech is mutuation?
- Mutuation is a noun.
- What is the plural of mutuation?
- The plural of mutuation is mutuations.
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