expunction
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin expunctiō, expunctiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
expunction (countable and uncountable, plural expunctions)
- The act of expunging or erasing.
- Synonym: expunctuation
- The condition of being expunged.
Further reading[edit]
- “expunction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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