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English
Noun
lancination (countable and uncountable, plural lancinations)
- (archaic) A tearing or laceration.
1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: , London: E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R Royston, , →OCLC: , Chapter "An Exhortation to the Imitation of Christ"
- He that considers with what affections and lancinations of spirit, with what effusions of love, Jesus prayed
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
lancination f (plural lancinations)
- lancination
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