majoration
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "there be five ways (in general) of majoration in sounds: inclosure simple; inclosure with dilatation; communication; reflexion concurrent; and approach to the sensory."
- "[…] we could in Theorem 5.1.5 (respectively, Theorem 5.1.10) require only the continuity condition if we strengthened the majoration condition (respectively, local majoration condition) to the strict majoration condition (respectively, local strict majoration condition)."
- "First, the majoration conditions X.1.57(c) in [16] and M(c) in [6] are quite restrictive."
- "The appraiser advanced the item for majoration from 10 per cent to 15 per cent because the exporter had added 15 per cent majoration to some other invoices. An official of the exporting company explained that the difference in majoration was accounted for not on account of the quantity sold but by reason of the differences in the articles sold each purchaser requiring a different kind and a different quality of merchandise, and also on account of varying dates when complete and exact ascertainments of costs had theretofore been made."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin maiōrātiō, from maiōrō (“to augment”), from Latin maior. By surface analysis, majorate + -ion. Compare French majoration.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: maior