tentation

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noun

A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.

OriginOld French tentation ← Latin tentatio →
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Meanings

nountentation (countable and uncountable, plural tentations)

plural tentations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of temptation.

    Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer.

    1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableA mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.

Origin

  1. Latintentatio
  2. Old Frenchtentation
  3. Englishtentation

From Old French tentation, from Latin tentatio, alternative form of temptatio. See temptation.

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APA

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