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Meaning of emunction | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The act of wiping or blowing one's nose.

countable, formal, uncountable

Examples

“For that would have⟳ allowed me, before parading in public certain habits such as the finger in the nose, the scratching of the balls, digital emunction and the peripatetic piss, to refer⟳ them to the first rules of a reasoned theory.”

CEFR level

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

emunctory emundation emuscene emutail emuwary emuwren

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