Nugation
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.) countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
"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 […]"
Example
More examples"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 […]"
Etymology
From Latin nugatio (“chatter”).
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