acumination

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

acumination (plural acuminations)

1. A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.
   • Bishop Pearson

     The coronary thorns did not only express the scorn of the imposers by that figure into which they were contrived, but did also pierce his tender and sacred temples to a multiplicity of pains, by their numerous acuminations.