perscrutation
UK/pəː.skɹuːˈteɪʃən/US/pɚ.skɹuːˈteɪʃən/
perscrutation noun: a thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
Noun
perscrutation (plural perscrutations)
- A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
- The first and universall reasons are of a hard perscrutation.1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 103
- Such guessing, visioning, dim perscrutation of the momentous future: the very clothmakers, old women, all townsfolk speak of it1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 8, The Election”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)
Forms of perscrutation
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Origin of perscrutation
From Latin perscrūtātiō, from the past participle stem of perscrūtor.
Questions about perscrutation
- What does perscrutation mean?
- Perscrutation means a thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
- What part of speech is perscrutation?
- Perscrutation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce perscrutation?
- Perscrutation is pronounced /pəː.skɹuːˈteɪʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of perscrutation?
- The plural of perscrutation is perscrutations.
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