abstersion

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See also: abstersión

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English abstersioun, from either Old French or Medieval Latin abstertion, from Latin abstersus, past participle of abstergēo (I wipe off or away).

Pronunciation

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  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æbˈstɜː.ʒn̩/
  • (US) IPA(key): /æbˈstɝ.ʒn̩/, /əbˈstɝ.ʒn̩/, /æbˈstɝ.ʃn̩/, /əbˈstɝ.ʃn̩/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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abstersion (countable and uncountable, plural abstersions)

  1. (archaic) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
    • 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since:
      Waverley ... was offered the patriarchal refreshment of a bath for the feet ... He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained To chafe the limb, and pour the fragrant oil, but by a smoke-dried skinny old Highland woman, who did not seem to think herself much honoured by the duty imposed upon her...

Translations

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References

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  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstersion”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.

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Scots

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Etymology

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From Middle English abstersioun.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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abstersion (plural abstersions)

  1. abstersion

References

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  • Eagle, Andy, editor (2024), “abstersion”, in The Online Scots Dictionary[1]