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English
Etymology
From Latin perscrūtātiō, from the past participle stem of perscrūtor.
Pronunciation
Noun
perscrutation (plural perscrutations)
- (rare) A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 103:
- The first and universall reasons are of a hard perscrutation.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 8, The Election”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):Such guessing, visioning, dim perscrutation of the momentous future: the very clothmakers, old women, all townsfolk speak of it