Intensation

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of intensifying; intensification. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "And who will warrant us that, at the same time, he shall only be an intensation and continuation of the old, which in general, is what we long and look for?"

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"And who will warrant us that, at the same time, he shall only be an intensation and continuation of the old, which in general, is what we long and look for?"

Etymology

From intense + -ation.

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