Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableDeprivation of life or spirits.
Must you take the girl from the temple? Always, ere this, you have contented yourself with the brief loan that the priests allow, and have rendered back the dead in the required state of exanimation.
1923, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, The Charnel God1 more example
The second [blast of the trumpet] they denominate the blast of exanimation; when all creatures both in heaven and earth shall die, or be annihilated, except those which God shall please to exempt from the common fate.
1761, A Complete History of the ArabsSynonyms: lifelessness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounDeprivation of life or spirits.
Origin
- Latinexanimatio
- Englishexanimation
Latin exanimatio.
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exanimation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exanimation
“exanimation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exanimation. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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