introsusception

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noun

The act or process of receiving within, absorption.

“c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor The person is corrupted by the introsusception of a nature which becomes evil thereby.”

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Meanings

nounintrosusception (countable and uncountable, plural introsusceptions)

plural introsusceptions

  1. archaiccountableuncountableThe act or process of receiving within, absorption.

    c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor The person is corrupted by the introsusception of a nature which becomes evil thereby.

    1 more example

    introsusception or nutrition and assimilation of unorganised substances which it derives from the atmosphere or the soil in which it grows

    1884, Bruce Findlay, Casualties and diseases of vegetable life
  2. archaiccountableuncountablemedicineintussusception

    introsusception of the intestines

    1831, William Youatt, The Horse
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introsusception. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/introsusception

MLA

“introsusception.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/introsusception. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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