nugation
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin nugatio (“chatter”).
Noun
editnugation (countable and uncountable, plural nugations)
- (rare, obsolete) The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)
- 1826, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, page 13:
- As for the received opinion, that putrefaction is caused, either by cold, or peregrine and preternatural heat, it is but nugation: for cold in things inanimate, is the greatest enemy that is to putrefaction […]
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editReferences
edit- “nugation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.