displosion

English

Noun

displosion (plural displosions)

  1. (obsolete) explosion
    • 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. To which are Annex’d, Some Thoughts, Occasioned by the Present Juncture, [...]”, in The Complaint, London: […] , →OCLC:
      The vast displosion dissipates the clouds.

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