devoration

English

Etymology

From Latin devoratio. See devour.

Noun

devoration (countable and uncountable, plural devorations)

1. (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

• “devoration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.