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trutination

trutination noun: the act of weighing.

Noun

trutination (countable and uncountable, plural trutinations)

  1. (obsolete) The act of weighing.
    • And we conceive men may mistake, if they distinguish not the sense of levity unto themselves, and in regard of the scale, or decision of trutination1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Forms of trutination

pluraltrutinations

Origin of trutination

From Latin trutinari (“to weigh”), from trutina (“a balance”). See trone (“a steelyard”).

Questions about trutination

What does trutination mean?
Trutination means the act of weighing.
What part of speech is trutination?
Trutination is a noun.
What is the plural of trutination?
The plural of trutination is trutinations.

Words near trutination in the dictionary

  1. truthtelling
  2. truthward
  3. truthwards
  4. truthy
  5. truti
  6. trutination
  7. trutinations
  8. trutis
  9. Trutnov
  10. trutrans
  11. trutranses

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