Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of reducing or shortening; the cutting or lopping off of a part.
- noun In obstet., separation of the trunk from the head of tie fetus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
Etymologies
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Examples
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By this detruncation of our syllables, our language is overstocked with consonants, and it is more necessary to add vowels to the beginning of words, than to cut them off from the end.
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The examples, thus mutilated, are no longer to be con sidered as conveying the sentiments or doctrine of their authors; the word, for the sake of which they are inserted, with all its appendant clauses, has been carefully preserved; but it may sometimes happen, by hasty detruncation, that the general tendency of the sentence may be changed: the divine may desert his tenets, or the philosopher his system.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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The examples, thus mutilated, are no longer to be considered as conveying the sentiments or doctrine of their authors; the word for the sake of which they are inserted, with all its appendant clauses, has been carefully preserved; but it may sometimes happen, by hasty detruncation, that the general tendency of the sentence may be changed: the divine may desert his tenets, or the philosopher his system.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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"hasty detruncation the general tendency of a sentence may be changed."
qroqqa commented on the word detruncation
The examples, thus mutilated, are no longer to be considered as conveying the sentiments or doctrine of their authours; the word for the sake of which they are inserted, with all its appendant clauses, has been carefully preserved; but it may sometimes happen, by hasty detruncation, that the general tendency of the sentence may be changed: the divine may desert his tenets, or the philosopher his system.
—Johnson, preface to his Dictionary
October 24, 2008