retrusion

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English

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Etymology

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Latin retrūsiō, from retrūdō (to push back)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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retrusion (countable and uncountable, plural retrusions)

  1. The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.
    • 11 February, 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, notes on Luther's Table Talk
      in virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituent cause
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