delitescence

See also: délitescence

English

Etymology

See delitescent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɛlɪˈtɛsəns/
• Rhymes: -ɛsəns

Noun

delitescence (usually uncountable, plural delitescences)

1. concealment; seclusion; retirement
   • 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     the delitescence of mental activities

2. (medicine) The sudden disappearance of inflammation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “delitescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)