rotundation

English

Etymology

rotund +‎ -ation

Noun

rotundation (uncountable)

1. (rare) The state or quality of being rotund.
   • 1650, Golden Chaine of Time Leading unto Christ, Published by Act of the Last General Assembly‎^[1], page 40:

     Here there is not so large a rotundation but only of 50 days.

   • 1866, John Nelson, Pinaceæ: Being a Handbook of the Firs and Pines‎^[2], Hatchard and Co., page 85:

     In the angularity of a seed, or in the ineffable thickness of the membrane, or in the elongation or rotundation thereof, will never transform a deciduous Larch into an evergreen Cedar, nor a verdant Cedar into a Silver Fir.

   • 2013, Lesley Wischmann, Andrew Erskine Dawson, This Far-Off Wild Land: The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson‎^[3], The Oklahoma University Press, page 249:

     This is no country for bellies I assure you, though our food is all that I can desire yet the exercise required to procure it is a sure preventative against rotundation.