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English
Etymology
From Latin abreptus, perfect passive participle of abripiō (“snatch away”); from ab (“away”) + rapiō (“snatch”).
Noun
abreption (plural abreptions)
- (archaic) A snatching away.
1751, Benjamin Whichcote, The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote, D. D., page 135:Who now and then are under an error, having failings, imperfections, and shortnesses […] You never find these men are called Sinners; neither are the infirmities of the regenerate, the sincere and upright-hearted called Sins, such as these sudden incursions and abreptions, when their thoughts are snatched away from them, either in praying or hearing.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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