Detrusion

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A downward out outward thrust. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "the detrusion of the Church from her legitimate influence, which sufficiently accounts for that absence of feeling for the beautiful and holy, which has so obscured and vulgarized the mind of modern age"

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"the detrusion of the Church from her legitimate influence, which sufficiently accounts for that absence of feeling for the beautiful and holy, which has so obscured and vulgarized the mind of modern age"

Etymology

From Latin detrusio. See detrude.

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