Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

detrectation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-trec-ta-tion
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Drawing back; refusal; withdrawal.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"The Church is the mother of us all, the less important those things are which (in the power of a parent) she injoynes, the more hateful is the detrectation of our observance; you remember the question of[…]"
"This, if it be the offence of him who should have been guardian, coincides with wrongful detrectation of guardianship: if it be the offence of a third person, it involves in it interception of guardianship, which, provided the[…]"

Etymology

From Latin dētrectātiō.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: dētrectātiō

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

detrectations (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

detrect

Questions

What does detrectation mean?: Drawing back; refusal; withdrawal.
Where does detrectation come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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