Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Attendance or waiting upon; a following. Blount; Bailey.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or maybe it's just that in making way for new words like blog and bromance, staycation, and chillax, we use up the lexicological shelf space that used to accommodate words like assectation, following something else; or drollic, which describes puppet shows.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word assectation
JM has an affectation that the assectation of his status is virtually guaranteed
May 25, 2009