nugation

English

Etymology

From Latin nugatio (“chatter”).

Noun

nugation (countable and uncountable, plural nugations)

  1. (rare, obsolete) The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)
    • 1826, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, page 13:
      As for the received opinion, that putrefaction is caused, either by cold, or peregrine and preternatural heat, it is but nugation: for cold in things inanimate, is the greatest enemy that is to putrefaction […]

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