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volitations

volitations is the plural of volitation.

Meaning of volitation

Noun

volitation (countable and uncountable, plural volitations)

  1. Flight; flying.
    • An elliptic flock of pigeons, in circular volitation, soaring gray, flapping white, and then gray again, wheeled across the limpid, pale sky, above the College Library.1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 3.6, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 73

Questions about volitations

What is volitations the plural of?
Volitations is the plural of volitation.

Words near volitations in the dictionary

  1. volitated
  2. volitates
  3. volitating
  4. volitation
  5. volitational
  6. volitations
  7. volitiency
  8. volitient
  9. volitile
  10. volition
  11. volitional

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