tentation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French tentation, from Latin tentatio, alternative form of temptatio. See temptation.
Noun edit
tentation (countable and uncountable, plural tentations)
- Obsolete form of temptation.
- 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer.
- (obsolete) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.[1]
References edit
- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Tentation”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin tentātiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tentation f (plural tentations)
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Further reading edit
- “tentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
tentation (plural tentationes)
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