What does perscrutation mean?
Perscrutation means (rare) A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny..
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/pəː.skɹuːˈteɪʃən/ · noun
(rare) A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny..
The first and universall reasons are of a hard perscrutation.
Such guessing, visioning, dim perscrutation of the momentous future: the very clothmakers, old women, all townsfolk speak of it
Use perscrutation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Perscrutation means (rare) A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The first and universall reasons are of a hard perscrutation.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.