Meaning of colluctancy | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of colluctation: struggling, conflict, strife.

obsolete, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Thirdly, the Spirits are in their third ſtate of Volatility, when after a colluctancy with the groſſer Particles they have⟳ ſo ſubjugated and overcome⟳ them, that they are juſt upon wings, and ready to fly⟳ away; as in Wine when it is in the height of its fermentation, and in ſome part of our arterial bloud alwayes.”

“After struggling along with the difficulties and embarrassments occasioned by this immense loss of patronage, and enduring the colluctancy of the Boston anti-tariff committee, and the N. Y. Evening Post⟳, just as the heart was ready to sink⟳ within us, help⟳ springs up where it was least expected, even in the city of New York, where this British “Satan’s throne is.””

“They may be such as to raise⟳ Madame [Pauline] Viardot to a very exalted positiion; but we can only say⟳ that an idea of colluctancy with Mdlle. [Jenny] Lind—at all events in the character of Amina—must be abandoned, as outrageously ridiculous.”

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