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paction

paction noun: a pact, an agreement.

Noun

paction (plural pactions)

  1. A pact, an agreement.
    • Instead of this, we have the tranquil declaration that they heartily desire the welfare of Hellas, and that they will make no paction with the enemy, if they can avoid the so doing.1876, George William Cox, A general history of Greece, page 215

Verb

paction (third-person singular simple present pactions, present participle pactioning, simple past and past participle pactioned)

  1. To form a pact; to make a binding agreement.
    • It would be usury, in the construction of law, to take from a necessitous debtor a bond for ₤. 100 for the loan of 800 marks, though the ordinary interest be pactioned for the sum borrowed;1811, The Decisions of the Court of Session
    • ...but if they were infants who were not capable of pactioning and entring into terms, then the mother's alimenting them, and not declaring quo animo she did it, prejudges her not, but she may thereafter crave the same.1826, Mungo Ponton Brown, William Maxwell Morison, Supplement to the Dictionary of the decisions of the Court of Session

paction meaning in Tamil

paction in Tamil

இது பதுக்கக மேலாண்மிக்காக, காட்சித் தொகுப்பியில் நடைபெறுகிறது

Forms of paction

Noun
pluralpactions
Verb
third-person singular presentpactions
present participlepactioning
past participlepactioned
pastpactioned

Words formed from paction

Questions about paction

What does paction mean?
Paction means a pact, an agreement.
What is paction in Tamil?
Paction in Tamil is இது பதுக்கக மேலாண்மிக்காக, காட்சித் தொகுப்பியில் நடைபெறுகிறது. See Paction meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is paction?
Paction can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of paction?
The plural of paction is pactions.

Words near paction in the dictionary

  1. pacta sunt servanda
  2. pactamycin
  3. pactamycins
  4. pacted
  5. pacting
  6. paction
  7. pactional
  8. pactionally
  9. pactioned
  10. pactioning
  11. pactions

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paction (page history and authors); paction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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