eluctationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

eluctation (countable and uncountable, plural eluctations)

1. (obsolete) A struggling out of any difficulty.
   • 1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC:

     Ye do, in common, sue to God for us, as your poor fellow-members, for our happy eluctation out of those miseries and temptations

   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:

     There is nothing more acceptable unto the ingenious world than this noble eluctation of truth

   • July 1, 1627, John Donne, Sermon preached at Chilsey

     if I be with him in his afflictions, I shall be with him in his eluctations, in his victory, in his triumph

参照

• “eluctation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.