abacination
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
abacination (countable and uncountable, plural abacinations)
- The act of abacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal
- 1902, James Meeker Ludlow, Incentives for Life, Personal and Public[1], page 144:
- That blind general lost his sight by the process of abacination.
- 1972, Trevanian (pseud.), The Eiger Sanction[2], 1984 Ballantine ed. edition, →ISBN, page 105:
- Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflicted abacination.
- 1994, Gene Wolfe, Sword & Citadel[3], →ISBN, page 134:
- I, who had seen so many brandings and abacinations, and had even used the iron myself (among the billion things I recall perfectly is the flesh of Morwenna's cheeks blistering), could scarcely force myself to go and look at him.