Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ingannation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-gan-na-tion
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Cheating; deception.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Thus having been deceived by themselves, and continually deluded by others, they must needs be stuffed with errors […] whereunto whosoever shall resigne their reasons, either from the root of deceit in themselves, or inability to resist such triviall ingannations from others; although their condition and fortunes may place them many Spheres above the multitude, yet are they still within the line of vulgarity, and Democraticall enemies of truth."
"While I am not able by any kind of searching to find out God, in the sense of the religions, while I get no glimpse whatever of any source of nature, and refuse to beguile myself or others with any ingannation or pretence on the subject, I have nevertheless as deep and as constraining a faith as any theist can possibly have, in the holiness and power which are in nature […]"
"And close as mortar cleaveth unto bricks, To buying and selling ingannation sticks."

Etymology

From Italian ingannazione, nominal form derived from ingannare (“deceive, cheat, betray”) from Vulgar Latin ingannāre, from Latin gannō.

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: ingannazione, ingannō, gannō

Usage

Inflected Forms

ingannations (plural)

Questions

What does ingannation mean?: Cheating; deception.
Where does ingannation come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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