What does refection mean?
Refection means Mental or spiritual refreshment..
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/ɹɪˈfɛkʃən/ · noun
Mental or spiritual refreshment..
For beſide the common way and road of reception by the root, there may be a refection and imbibition from without; For gentle ſhowrs refreſh plants, though they enter not their roots; [...]
[S]in and sorrow it were, considering the hardships of this noble and gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have endured, if we were now either to advance or retard the hour of refection beyond the time when the viands are fit to be set before us.
[T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
Use refection when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Refection means Mental or spiritual refreshment..
Common synonyms include repast.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For beſide the common way and road of reception by the root, there may be a refection and imbibition from without; For gentle ſhowrs refreſh plants, though they enter not their roots; [...]
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