abbagliaggine
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From abbagliare (“to dazzle”) + -aggine.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abbagliaggine f (plural abbagliaggini)
- (archaic) Synonym of abbagliamento (“dazzlement”)
- 1530, Pietro Bembo, “Libro secondo, Capitolo XXII”, in Gli asolani, published 1989:
- Perciò che sparge Amore col movimento delle sue ali una dolcezza ne gli occhi de’ suoi seguaci, la quale, d’ogni abbagliaggine purgandogli, fa che essi, stati semplici per lo adietro nel guardare, mutano subito modo
- That's because Love, with the movement of his wings, spreads in the eyes of his followers a sweetness which, purging them from any dazzlement, makes it so that they, that had previously looked in a simple way, immediately change their ways
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- abbagliaggine in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication