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English
Etymology
From Latin trānsvolō (“to fly over or across”), from trāns- (“across”) + volō (“to fly”).
Noun
transvolation (countable and uncountable, plural transvolations)
- (very rare) A flight beyond or across.
1651–1653, Jer Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ . A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. , 2nd edition, London: Richard Royston , published 1655, →OCLC:Such things as these which are extraordinary egressions and transvolations beyond the ordinary course of an even piety, God loves to reward with an extraordinary favour […]
1866, George Henry Calvert, First Years in Europe, page 34:[…] a shadow which they would have you think is cast by the argent wings of hovering angels, but whose chill suggests the transvolation of Lucifer with his pride-frosted host.
1968, James Kirkup, Bangkok, page 47:I […] walked past the Giant Swing […] I should have liked to try such transvolation, but the seat of the swing had been removed.
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