intensation

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English

Etymology

From intense +‎ -ation.

Noun

intensation (countable and uncountable, plural intensations)

  1. (archaic) The act or process of intensifying; intensification.
    • 1828, Thomas Carlyle, “Goethe”, in Foreign Review:
      And who will warrant us that, at the same time, he shall only be an intensation and continuation of the old, which in general, is what we long and look for?

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