Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fabrefaction

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fab-refac-tion
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

the process or act of creating or developing, as of a work of art

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"O servile labour! in superstitious attendance. O toylsome labour! in prestigious fabrefaction. O lost labour and time! to be instituted and educated to such a practice or profession."
"[…] according to the sense of the Stoics, than of the Platonists, whose inferior generated gods also (being first made) were supposed to have had a stroke in the fabrefaction of mankind."
"In all his fabrefactions there was the strong impress of his own individuality; the individuality not only of the born and laboriously trained artificer […]"

Etymology

From Latin fabrēfacĕre.

Usage

Inflected Forms

fabrefactions (plural)

Questions

What does fabrefaction mean?: the process or act of creating or developing, as of a work of art
Where does fabrefaction come from?: From Latin fabrēfacĕre.

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