Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tearing in pieces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A tearing in pieces.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An act of
tearing intopieces .
Etymologies
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Latin delacerare, delaceratum, to tear in pieces. See lacerate.
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Examples
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Cheered by no one single motive that can impel the will, or excite their efforts; nothing but terrors and punishments are presented to them; death is denounced if they run away; horrid delaceration if they speak with their native freedom; perpetually awed by the terrible cracks of whips, or by the fear of capital punishments, while even those punishments often fail of their purpose.
Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Cr��vecoeur 1774
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