incantation
/ɪnkænˈteɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "new years eve we dropped mushrooms / and danced around the house / making music with everything that we found / incantation replaced resolution"
- "My ancient Incantations are too weake, / And hell too ſtrong for me to buckle with:"
- "We did not know what scrambled eggs were, and we fancied that it must be some Red Indian or Sandwich Islands sort of dish that required dances and incantations for its proper cooking."
- "Then he produced a string of beads, and after placing it over the scratchings he had made on the soil, jerked out some strange incantation in a voice that thickened and quivered with terror."
- "It is nothing new, these vital lies men tell themselves, muttering and mumbling them like charms and incantations against the powers of Night. The voodoos and medicine men and the devil-devil doctors were the fathers of metaphysics."
- "Yarrow is one of the aboriginal English plants, and from time immemorial it has been used in incantations and by witches. Country folk still regard it as one of our most valuable herbs, especially for rheumatism."
Etymology
From Middle English incantacioun, from Old French incantation, from Latin incantatio. More at enchant.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *keh₂n-, incantacioun, incantation, incantatio