ingannationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ingannation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 ingannations)

1. (obsolete) Cheating; deception.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9,^[1]

     Thus having been deceived by themselves, and continually deluded by others, they must needs be stuffed with errors […] whereunto whosoever shall resigne their reasons, either from the root of deceit in themselves, or inability to resist such triviall ingannations from others; although their condition and fortunes may place them many Spheres above the multitude, yet are they still within the line of vulgarity, and Democraticall enemies of truth.

   • 1877, Nathaniel Ramsay Waters, Through Rome On: A Memoir of Christian and Extra-Christian Experience, New York: C.P. Somerby, p. 199,^[2]

     While I am not able by any kind of searching to find out God, in the sense of the religions, while I get no glimpse whatever of any source of nature, and refuse to beguile myself or others with any ingannation or pretence on the subject, I have nevertheless as deep and as constraining a faith as any theist can possibly have, in the holiness and power which are in nature […]

   • 1907, Edwin Sauter, “The Street,” V, in Satires, Boston: R.G. Badger, p. 37,^[3]

     Trade asks but two thoughts to insure success—

     Sell much and cheaply,—but first buy for less:

     And close as mortar cleaveth unto bricks,

     To buying and selling ingannation sticks.