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Fondation vs Fundament - What's the difference?

fondation | fundament |

As nouns the difference between fondation and fundament

is that fondation is foundation while fundament is foundation.

fondation

Not English

Fondation has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'fondation':

foundation

fundament

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Foundation.
  • The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
  • * 1703 , Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized :
    • It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament , and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.
  • * 1861 , Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies. , page 119
    • ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck...
  • * 1864 , Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well , page 9
    • Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament , beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.
  • * 2008 , Eric Summers , Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West , page 38[http://books.google.com/books?id=0BVYlikE-bgC&pg=PA38&dq=fundament]:
    • I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament .
  • The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

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