Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A raising or lifting up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A raising or lifting up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
raising orlifting up .
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Examples
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So I must disagree that this relevation is "absolutely outrageous"
BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University
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Years later, there would be bitter dissensions between them when Paul, in a newspaper "relevation", accused his former City team-mates of throwing games, albeit for derisory sums of money.
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If neither of us know if that's empirically true, I guess my question for you is this: if it is true that changes in CO2 level lag rather than lead temperature changes, is there any way that you can conceive of in which the "CO2 drives climate change" thesis can survive that kind of relevation?
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Paul, in a newspaper "relevation", accused his former City team-mates of throwing games, albeit for derisory sums of money.
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Passages from the Book are revealed to the audience slowly, each relevation nuttier than the last.
Valerie Frankel: God Must Be Crazy: The Book of Mormon Review
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Passages from the Book are revealed to the audience slowly, each relevation nuttier than the last.
Valerie Frankel: God Must Be Crazy: The Book of Mormon Review
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Passages from the Book are revealed to the audience slowly, each relevation nuttier than the last.
Valerie Frankel: God Must Be Crazy: The Book of Mormon Review
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Passages from the Book are revealed to the audience slowly, each relevation nuttier than the last.
Valerie Frankel: God Must Be Crazy: The Book of Mormon Review
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Presuming that no scandalous relevation from her past bubbles up into the public domain one imagines she will be confirmed.
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In a shocking relevation, India's fourth largest software exporting company, Satyam Computers, has admitted to wrong-doings and fraud.
Investors Shocked as Satyam admits to cheating by chairman Raju
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