deordination

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noun

disorder; dissoluteness

OriginLatin deordinatio →
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Meanings

noundeordination (plural deordinations)

plural deordinations

  1. obsoletedisorder; dissoluteness

    1820-1822, Reginald Heber, Life of Jeremy Taylor inadvertency, and tyranny, had besmeared her; and being thus cleansed and washed , is accused by the Roman parties of novelty , and condemned , because she refuses to run into the same excess of riot and deordination

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    concupiſcence is the deordination of the will

    1611, Robert Abbot, A Defence of the Reformed Catholicke of M.W. Perkins […]

Origin

  1. Latindeordinatio“depraved morality”
  2. Englishdeordination

Latin deordinatio (“depraved morality”).

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Chicago

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