Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making wet; a soaking; saturation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet.
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- noun Alternative form of
madefication .
Etymologies
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Latin madefacere ("to make wet").
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Examples
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He bade Hester be silent, who indeed was as dumb as a mouse, poor thing! he told Aunt Lambert (who was indulging in that madefaction of pocket-handkerchiefs which I have before described), and with something like an imprecation, that the women were all against him, and pimps (he called them) for one another; and frantically turning round to Jack, asked what was his view in the matter?
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
reesetee commented on the word madefaction
(Obsolete) The action or process of making something wet or moist; an instance of this.
*watching to see how many "don't like" lists this ends up on* ;-)
February 20, 2008