imminution

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noun

reduction; lessening; decrease.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounimminution (countable and uncountable, plural imminutions)

plural imminutions

  1. countableobsoleteuncountablereduction; lessening; decrease.

    No ſhade of change, no imminution, / No nor increaſe

    1647, Henry More, “Psychozoia, or The First Part of the Song of the Soul, Containing a Christiano-Platonicall Display of Life. Cant[o] I.”, in Philosophicall Poems, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the University, →OCLC, page 3
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    and did not a Providence continually overſee and ſecure them from all alteration or imminution

    1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 52

    Is it charged with Folly and Ignorance, to talk of a gradual declenſion or Imminution of a Form of Government, of e.g. Monarchy.

    1746, Arthur Ashley Sykes, A defence of the Examination of Mr. Warburton's Account of the theocracy of the Jews being, an answer to his remarks, so far as they concern Dr. Sykes, London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, page 28

Origin

  1. Latinimminutio
  2. Englishimminution

From Latin imminutio, from imminuere, imminutum (“to lessen”), from im- (“in”) + minuere.

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