transvolation

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noun

A flight beyond or across.

OriginLatin trānsvolō →
Scrabble 16
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Meanings

nountransvolation (countable and uncountable, plural transvolations)

plural transvolations

  1. countablerareuncountableA flight beyond or across.

    I[…]walked past the Giant Swing[…]I should have liked to try such transvolation, but the seat of the swing had been removed.

    1968, James Kirkup, Bangkok, page 47
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    Such things as these which are extraordinary egressions and transvolations beyond the ordinary course of an even piety, God loves to reward with an extraordinary favour […]

    1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC

    […] a shadow which they would have you think is cast by the argent wings of hovering angels, but whose chill suggests the transvolation of Lucifer with his pride-frosted host.

    1866, George Henry Calvert, First Years in Europe, page 34

Origin

  1. Latintrānsvolō“to fly over or across”
  2. Englishtransvolation

From Latin trānsvolō (“to fly over or across”), from trāns- (“across”) + volō (“to fly”).

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Chicago

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