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- noun
Temptation .
Etymologies
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From Middle English costning, costnunge, from Old English costnung ("temptation, testing, trial, tribulation"), from Old English costnian, variant of Old English costian ("to tempt, try, prove, examine"), from Proto-Germanic *kustōnan (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *geus- (“to enjoy, taste”), equivalent to cost + -ing. Cognate with German kosten ("to taste"). Related to choose.
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