colluctation
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin colluctor (“I struggle or contend with”).
Noun
editcolluctation (countable and uncountable, plural colluctations)
- (obsolete) struggling, conflict, strife
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 69:
- " […] and the shadowy Melancholy intangles her in colluctation with old Hags and Hobgoblins, and frights her with dead mens faces in the dark."
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 69: