exinanition

English

Etymology

From Latin exinānitiō, from exināniō, from ex- (“out”) and ināniō (“I empty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛɡzɪnəˈnɪʃən/

Noun

exinanition (plural exinanitions)

1. An emptying; an evacuation; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.
   • 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:

     Fastings to the exinanition of spirits

2. (obsolete, rare, by extension) privation; loss; destitution

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exinanition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• 1860, Noah Webster, Webster's Dictionary Unabridged. Picturial Edition. An American Dictionary of the English Language. Revised and Enlarged by Chauncey A. Goodrich. G. & C. Merriam, Springfield, Mass. The etymology, the meanings evacuation and the meanings by extension are from this work.