devoration
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin devoratio. See devour.
Noun[edit]
devoration (countable and uncountable, plural devorations)
- (obsolete) The act of devouring.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- […] the death and deuoration of manie children in sundrie countries
References[edit]
- “devoration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.