Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mutuation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mu-tu-a-tion
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An act of borrowing or exchanging.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"A sheep may teach thee to foot a precipice, a goat to leap a chasm; for there is a mutuation between the great and the little, that the young do not see, and the proud will not own."
"After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe."
"He referred to the mutuations of fortune, and how the members of society had an interest in this because the day might come when those rich now might be dependent upon this instrumentality for the education of their children."

Etymology

From Latin mutuatio, from mutuare, mutuari (“to borrow”), from mutuus. See mutual.

Usage

Inflected Forms

mutuations (plural)

Questions

What does mutuation mean?: An act of borrowing or exchanging.
Where does mutuation come from?: From Latin mutuatio, from mutuare, mutuari (“to borrow”), from mutuus. See mutual.

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