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English
Etymology
From Late Latin reflexiō; the variant spelling reflection is due to influence from correction.
Pronunciation
Noun
reflexion (countable and uncountable, plural reflexions)
- Dated spelling of reflection.
1684, John Goodman, A Winter-Evening Conference between neighbours:Now, I say, why Time should be so burthensome to such as these, or what should betray them to such infrugal Expences of it, I can give no account without making severe Reflexions on their Discretion.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:He gets off the train, determined not to leave town after all. But a little further reflexion shows him the folly of such a course.
See also
Swedish
Noun
reflexion c
- Dated spelling of reflektion (“reflection”).
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