Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of sweetening by admixture of some saccharine substance.
- noun In chem., the act of sweetening or rendering more mild or pure by freeing from acid or saline substances, or from any soluble impurities, by repeated affusions of water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of sweetening or edulcorating.
- noun (Chem.), rare The act of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare A
sweetening . - noun rare The process of
edulcorating . - noun chemistry The process of removing acid or other impurities from a substance.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The choice of a word such as edulcoration (417) is merely sophomoric.
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As the Grandmaster of the Spoken Word, she was versed in many secret methods of power, including the bildungsroman form of twisting moral identities and the calculated use of haplology and edulcoration.
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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As the Grandmaster of the Spoken Word, she was versed in many secret methods of power, including the bildungsroman form of twisting moral identities and the calculated use of haplology and edulcoration.
Archive 2003-07-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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Fine white sago of the Moluccas; entirely resembling No. 3, only that it is purely white, owing to the complete edulcoration of the fecula of which it is made.
qms commented on the word edulcoration
Dilute the truth for presentation
And be accused of adulteration.
So sweeten your views
With bits of good news
And succeed through edulcoration.
December 27, 2014