repedation

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noun

A stepping or going back.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounrepedation (countable and uncountable, plural repedations)

plural repedations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableliteral or figurativeA stepping or going back.

    […] to take notice of the Direction, Stations and Repedations of those Erratick Lights, and from thence most convincingly to inform himself of that pleasant and true Paradox of the Annual Motion of the Earth […]

    1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84

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Chicago

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