Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Deprivation of life or of spirits; real or apparent death.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Deprivation of life or of spirits.
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- noun Deprivation of
life orspirits .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He said he made a hasty exanimation before he called me up, and he is sure a number of my electrical inventions are missing.
Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, or, the Rivals of Lake Carlopa Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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Wallingford went out, professedly with the intention of riding over the place of his ancestors, with a view to give it a more critical exanimation than it had hitherto been in his power to do.
Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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In a telephone interview with Chosun Ilbo on Friday last week, Education Minister Kim Doh-yeon said the government wants English education to be separate from college entrance exanimation.
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