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absumption

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.

obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Chriſtians abhorred this way of obſequies, and though they ſtickt not to give⟳ their bodies to be burnt in their lives, deteſted that mode after death; affecting rather a depoſiture than abſumption, […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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