lancination

English

Noun

lancination (countable and uncountable, plural lancinations)

1. (archaic) A tearing or laceration.
   • 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:
     , Chapter "An Exhortation to the Imitation of Christ"

     He that considers with what affections and lancinations of spirit, with what effusions of love, Jesus prayed […]

References

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

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

lancination f (plural lancinations)

1. lancination

Further reading

• “lancination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.