amandation

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noun

The act of sending someone away.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounamandation (plural amandations)

plural amandations

  1. obsoleteThe act of sending someone away.
  2. obsoleteMore specifically, sending someone on a message.
  3. obsoleteA message.

    In verity, he possessed no habilitation for his function, and as to his supernal amandation, he labored under an entire hallucination.

    c. 1856, Samuel K. Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East by Lorenzo Altisonant

Origin

  1. Latinamandatio
  2. Englishamandation

Either from amand + -ation, or from Latin amandatio.

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APA

amandation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amandation

MLA

“amandation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amandation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “amandation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amandation.

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