Meanings
nounproperation (uncountable)
- obsoleterareuncountablehaste; hurrying.
Often handling of the withering Flowre[…]is a properation of more swift decay.
1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political1 more example
There is great preparation of this banquet, properation to it, participation of it.
a. 1652, Thomas Adams, The Fatal Banquet (sermon)
Origin
- Latinproperatio
- Englishproperation
Latin properatio.
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