abreption

English

Etymology

From Latin abreptus, perfect passive participle of abripiō (“snatch away”); from ab (“away”) + rapiō (“snatch”).

Noun

abreption (plural abreptions)

1. (archaic) A snatching away.
   • 1751, Benjamin Whichcote, The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote, D. D.‎^[1], page 135:

     Who now and then are under an error, having failings, imperfections, and shortnesses […] You never find these men are called Sinners; neither are the infirmities of the regenerate, the sincere and upright-hearted called Sins, such as these sudden incursions and abreptions, when their thoughts are snatched away from them, either in praying or hearing.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• bioparent, preobtain