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transvolation

transvolation noun: a flight beyond or across.

Noun

transvolation (countable and uncountable, plural transvolations)

  1. (rare) A flight beyond or across.
    • Such things as these which are extraordinary egressions and transvolations beyond the ordinary course of an even piety, God loves to reward with an extraordinary favour […]1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC
    • […] a shadow which they would have you think is cast by the argent wings of hovering angels, but whose chill suggests the transvolation of Lucifer with his pride-frosted host.1866, George Henry Calvert, First Years in Europe, page 34

Forms of transvolation

pluraltransvolations

Origin of transvolation

From Latin trānsvolō (“to fly over or across”), from trāns- (“across”) + volō (“to fly”).

Questions about transvolation

What does transvolation mean?
Transvolation means a flight beyond or across.
What part of speech is transvolation?
Transvolation is a noun.
What is the plural of transvolation?
The plural of transvolation is transvolations.

Words near transvolation in the dictionary

  1. transvestophile
  2. transvestophiles
  3. transvestophilia
  4. transvests
  5. transvitreal
  6. transvolation
  7. transvolations
  8. transvolcanic
  9. transwar
  10. transwashing
  11. transwell

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