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Abacination vs Abbacination - What's the difference?

abacination | abbacination |

As nouns the difference between abacination and abbacination

is that abacination is the act of abacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal while abbacination is .

abacination

English

(wikipedia abacination)

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of abacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal
  • * {{quote-book, 1902, James Meeker Ludlow, Incentives for Life, Personal and Public, url=http://www.archive.org/stream/incentivesforli00ludlgoog, page=144
    • , passage=That blind general lost his sight by the process of abacination .}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1972, (Trevanian) (pseud.), (The Eiger Sanction), url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fB9kqYUlt_YC, page=105, isbn=0345317378, edition=1984 Ballantine ed.
    • , passage=Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflicted abacination .}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1994, (Gene Wolfe), Sword & Citadel, url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0312890184, isbn=0312890184, page=134
    • , passage=I, who had seen so many brandings and abacinations , and had even used the iron myself (among the billion things I recall perfectly is the flesh of Morwenna's cheeks blistering), could scarcely force myself to go and look at him. }}

    abbacination

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    Noun

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