devitation

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noun

An avoiding or escaping.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

noundevitation (plural devitations)

plural devitations

  1. obsoleteAn avoiding or escaping.

    Selection of Good, and Devitation of Evil

    1698, Timothy Childe, A phisico-theological Discourse on the Divine Being […]
  2. obsoleteA warning.

Origin

  1. Latindevitatio
  2. Englishdevitation

Latin devitatio.

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APA

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Chicago

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