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Deflation vs Delation - What's the difference?

deflation | delation |

As nouns the difference between deflation and delation

is that deflation is deflation while delation is informing, tattling.

deflation

English

(wikipedia deflation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act or instance of deflating.
    • The loss caused utter deflation and disappointment among the fans.
  • (economics) A decrease in the general price level, that is, in the nominal cost of goods and services as well as wages.
  • (economics, euphemistic) An economic contraction.
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    • Synonyms

    * (decrease in price level) disinflation * (economic contraction) impoverishment

    Antonyms

    * inflation

    Derived terms

    * deflationary

    Anagrams

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    delation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Conveyance.
  • (legal) An accusation or charge brought against someone, especially by an informer.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1858, author=John Addington Symonds, title=Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Some curious circumstances respecting delation , prison life, and autos da fe are here minutely recorded.]}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1789, author=Edward Gibbon, title=The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Such public defiance might become Valentinian; but it could leave no room for the unworthy delation of the philosopher Maximus, which supposes some more private offence, (Zosimus, l. iv. p. 200, 201.)]}}
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 253:
  • *:A wise woman who was popular with her neighbours might escape delation ; whereas one who had fallen out with them might find herself accused not just of charming, but even of black witchcraft.