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名詞

nugation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 nugations)

1. (まれに, obsolete) The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial または inconsequential.)
   • 1826, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, p.13

     As for the received opinion, that putrefaction is caused, either by cold, or peregrine and preternatural heat, it is but nugation: for cold in things inanimate, is the greatest enemy that is to putrefaction […]

関連する語

• nugatory

参照

• nugation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913