extirpation
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
extirpation (countable and uncountable, plural extirpations)
- The act of extirpating or uprooting.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 34:
- it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices
Translations
the act of extirpating
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French
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Further reading
- “extirpation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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