Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of breaking up.
- noun In liturgies, the ritual fraction or breaking of the consecrated bread or host: a term used for fraction, especially in the Galilcan liturgies.
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Examples
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"Ole M'er Jackson, fines 'confraction, fell down sta'rs fer to git satisfaction; big Bill Fray, he rule de day, eve'ything
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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"Ole M'er Jackson, fines 'confraction, fell down sta'rs fer to git satisfaction; big Bill Fray, he rule de day, eve'ything he call fer come one, two by three.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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