demigration

English

Etymology

From Latin demigratio.

Noun

demigration (countable and uncountable, plural demigrations)

1. (obsolete) emigration
   • 1617, Joseph Hall, Quo Vadis? A just Censure of Travel:

     put ourselves from the side of Eden, into the land of Nod, that is, of demigration?

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “demigration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)