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Abreption vs Abruption - What's the difference?

abreption | abruption |

As nouns the difference between abreption and abruption

is that abreption is (obsolete) a snatching away while abruption is (archaic) a sudden termination or interruption .

abreption

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A snatching away.
  • * 1751 , , The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote, D. D. , Alexander Thomson, Aberdeen, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=yi4HAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA135,M1 p. 135]:
    • Who now and then are under an error, having failings, imperfections, and shortnesses . . . You never find these men are called Sinners''; neither are the infirmities of the regenerate, the sincere and upright-hearted called ''Sins , such as these sudden incursions and abreptions , when their thoughts are snatched away from them, either in praying or hearing.

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

    abruption

    English

    (wikipedia abruption)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A sudden termination or interruption.
  • A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
  • * 1837 , , The Life of Cowley :
    • By this abruption posterity lost more instruction than delight. Johnson, Life of Cowley.
  • * 1996 , Richard Taruskin, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions , page 336:
    • After a startling abruption and a slow recovery, the canonic process is resumed at [7], with a whole slew of redundant entries on the last phrase.

    Related terms

    * abrupt * abruptly * abruptness * placental abruption

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