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Labefaction vs Tabefaction - What's the difference?

labefaction | tabefaction |

As nouns the difference between labefaction and tabefaction

is that labefaction is (rare) the act of shaking or weakening or the resulting state; overthrow, ruination while tabefaction is (archaic) a gradual loss of flesh due to disease.

labefaction

English

Noun

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  • (rare) The act of shaking or weakening or the resulting state; overthrow, ruination.
  • * 1963 , C. N. Stavrou , "Religion in Byron's Don Juan," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 , vol. 3, no. 4, p. 590,
    • Man's labefaction did not occur in time past; nor does it wait upon time future.
  • * 1968', "The Casualty Loss Deduction and Consumer Expectation: Section 165(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code," ''The University of Chicago Law Review'', vol. 36, no. 1, p. 224 ''(citing 54 '''F .2d 537 (2d Cir. 1931)) ,
    • The court found "simply a steady labefaction from wind and weather more rapid than usual because of structural defects."

    Related terms

    * labefy

    References

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

    tabefaction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A gradual loss of flesh due to disease.

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