effection

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin effectio: compare French effection.

Noun[edit]

effection (plural effections)

  1. Creation; a doing.
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
      Man is the work and effection of God

References[edit]

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

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