suscitation

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noun

The act of raising or exciting.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounsuscitation (countable and uncountable, plural suscitations)

plural suscitations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableThe act of raising or exciting.
    1 more example

    But the Answer to this, is not difficult, viz. That the Point now before us is not wholly determinable from the bare Grammatical Use of these Words; (according to which we deny not, but that they sometimes import a mere Suscitation or Production of a thing, without supposing any precedent Destruction of the same;) […]

    1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London

Origin

  1. Latinsuscitatio
  2. Englishsuscitation

Latin suscitatio: compare French suscitation.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suscitation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suscitation.

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