colluctation

English

Etymology

Latin colluctor (“I struggle or contend with”)

Noun

colluctation (countable and uncountable, plural colluctations)

1. (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."