averruncation

词形变化

averruncations 复数 averruncations

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    (The act of) warding off, averting (something evil).

    古体 可数 罕用 不可数

    There are, we presume, different forms in different rituals; for in another that we heve seen, the bishop, while anointing and crossing the bell, prays God will send his Holy Spirit, that the bell may become sanctified for the repelling of all the power, snares, and illusions of the devil, for the souls of the dead, and especially for the averruncation of storms, thunder, and tempests!

    […] I believe / many failed in their averruncation / of Rodomonte's assaults and they would achieve / nothing more than the early termination / of lives they could have enjoyed or put to use.

  2. 2.

    Eradication, uprooting.

    可数 不可数

词源

From averruncate + -ion.

来源：wiktionary