effection

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noun

Creation; a doing.

OriginLatin effectio →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nouneffection (plural effections)

plural effections

  1. Creation; a doing.

    Man is the work and effection of God

    a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latineffectio
  2. Englisheffection

Latin effectio: compare French effection.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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