abreption

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noun

A snatching away.

OriginLatin abreptus →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounabreption (plural abreptions)

plural abreptions

  1. archaicA snatching away.
    1 more example

    Who now and then are under an error, having failings, imperfections, and shortnesses […] You never find these men are called Sinners; neither are the infirmities of the regenerate, the sincere and upright-hearted called Sins, such as these sudden incursions and abreptions, when their thoughts are snatched away from them, either in praying or hearing.

    1751, Benjamin Whichcote, The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote, D. D., page 135

Origin

  1. Latinabreptus
  2. Englishabreption

From Latin abreptus, perfect passive participle of abripiō (“snatch away”); from ab (“away”) + rapiō (“snatch”).

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Chicago

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