percunctation

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percunctation (plural percunctations)

  1. (rare) Obsolete spelling of percontation
    • [1968], William E[arl] Buckler, A Preface to Our Times: Contemporary Thought in Traditional Rhetorical Forms, [New York, N.Y.]: American Book Company, →OCLC, page 232:
      His rhetorical questions and percunctations with repetition, here anaphora and epistrophe, have the urgency of a Massillon convincing a noble audience of the probability of their damnation: […]
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