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abacination

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Fromabacinate +‎-ion.

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abacination (countable anduncountable,pluralabacinations)

  1. The act ofabacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal
    • 1902, James Meeker Ludlow,Incentives for Life, Personal and Public[1], page144:
      That blind general lost his sight by the process ofabacination.
    • 1972,Trevanian (pseud.),The Eiger Sanction[2], Ballantine, published1984,→ISBN, page105:
      Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflictedabacination.
    • 1982,Gene Wolfe, chapter XXIV, inThe Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York:Timescape,→ISBN,page179:
      I, who had seen so many brandings andabacinations, and had even used the iron myself (among the billion things I recall perfectly is the flesh of Morwenna's cheeks blistering), could scarcely force myself to go and look at him.
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