Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tentation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English

Syllables: ten-ta-tion
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete form of temptation.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer."

Etymology

From Old French tentation, from Latin tentatio, alternative form of temptatio. See temptation.

Origin

Source language: Old French

Word Breakdown

Root: tentation, tentatio

Usage

Inflected Forms

tentations (plural)

Questions

What does tentation mean?: Obsolete form of temptation.
Where does tentation come from?: It is traced to Old French.

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