effection

English

Etymology

Latin effectio: compare French effection.

Noun

effection (plural effections)

1. Creation; a doing.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     Man is the work and effection of God

References

“effection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.