extruction

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English

Etymology

Latin exstructio.

Noun

extruction (usually uncountable, plural extructions)

  1. (obsolete) A building up; a construction.
    • 1665, John Webb, A Vindication of Stone-Heng Restored: , London: R Davenport for Tho Bassett, , →OCLC, page 232:
      f Famous Temples of the Romans, their Palaces, Baths, Theatres, and Buildings of all kindes, vve meet unqueſtionably vvith the Ruines in every part of this Kingdome; but not ſo much as vvith the leaſt pieces of broken Craggs, of the extruction of the Danes in any place thereof, vvhich can juſtly be ſaid Theirs.

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