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lancination (countable and uncountable, plural lancinations)

  1. (archaic) A tearing or laceration.
    • 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: [], London: [] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, [], →OCLC:
      , Chapter "An Exhortation to the Imitation of Christ"
      He that considers with what affections and lancinations of spirit, with what effusions of love, Jesus prayed []

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lancination f (plural lancinations)

  1. lancination

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