tentation
English
Etymology
From Old French tentation, from Latin tentatio, alternative form of temptatio. See temptation.
Noun
tentation (countable and uncountable, plural tentations)
- Obsolete form of temptation.
- 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer.
- (obsolete) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
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French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin tentātiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
tentation f (plural tentations)
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Further reading
- “tentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Interlingua
Noun
tentation (plural tentationes)
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Noun
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