ingannation

From Italian ingannazione, nominal form derived from ingannare (“deceive, cheat, betray”) from Vulgar Latin ingannāre, from Latin gannō.

ingannation (countable and uncountable, plural ingannations)

1. (obsolete) Cheating; deception.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica‎, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9:

     Thus having been deceived by themselves, and continually deluded by others, they must needs be stuffed with errors […] whereunto whosoever shall resigne their reasons, either from the root of deceit in themselves, or inability to resist such triviall ingannations from others; although their condition and fortunes may place them many Spheres above the multitude, yet are they still within the line of vulgarity, and Democraticall enemies of truth.

   • 1877, Nathaniel Ramsay Waters, Through Rome On: A Memoir of Christian and Extra-Christian Experience‎, New York: C.P. Somerby, page 199:

     While I am not able by any kind of searching to find out God, in the sense of the religions, while I get no glimpse whatever of any source of nature, and refuse to beguile myself or others with any ingannation or pretence on the subject, I have nevertheless as deep and as constraining a faith as any theist can possibly have, in the holiness and power which are in nature […]

   • 1907, Edwin Sauter, “The Street,” V, in Satires, Boston: R.G. Badger, p. 37,

     Trade asks but two thoughts to insure success—

     Sell much and cheaply,—but first buy for less:

     And close as mortar cleaveth unto bricks,

     To buying and selling ingannation sticks.

• “ingannation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.