Averruncation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Averruncation is a noun meaning Eradication, uprooting.
Meaning
Eradication, uprooting.
More Meanings
- (archaic, rare) (The act of) warding off, averting (something evil).
Example Sentences
Quest[ion]. Whether averruncation of Epidemicall diseases, by Telesmes, be feisable and lawfull ? Answ[er]. [etc.]
BY Theurgick or Telestick Rites they conceived that they could procure a communication with the good Dæmons, and expulsion or averruncation of the bad.
[…] Pliny allows them [sc. mice] to have been always an ill omen, and therefore you should be advised to prepare against it either by averruncation or traps.
[…] I believe / many failed in their averruncation / of Rodomonte's assaults and they would achieve / nothing more than the early termination / of lives they could have enjoyed or put to use.
Word Forms
- averruncations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include aversion, avoidaunce, aversation, avertive, avocative, abreption.
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