Detrusion
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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"
Example
More examples"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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