eluctation

English

Etymology

From Latin eluctatio.

Noun

eluctation (countable and uncountable, plural eluctations)

1. (obsolete) A struggling out of any difficulty.
   • 1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC:

     Ye do, in common, sue to God for us, as your poor fellow-members, for our happy eluctation out of those miseries and temptations

   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:

     There is nothing more acceptable unto the ingenious world than this noble eluctation of truth

   • July 1, 1627, John Donne, Sermon preached at Chilsey

     if I be with him in his afflictions, I shall be with him in his eluctations, in his victory, in his triumph

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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