profection

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noun

A setting out, going forward, advance or progression.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteA setting out, going forward, advance or progression.

    profection of the horoscope

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

See proficient.

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Chicago

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