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Retrusion

//ɹɪˈtɹuːʒən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded. countable, uncountable

    "11 February, 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, notes on Luther's Table Talk in virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituent cause"

Etymology

From Latin retrūsiō, from retrūdō (“to push back”).

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