Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of drowning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of drowning.
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- noun The act of
drowning .
Etymologies
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drown + -age
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Examples
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Solution into universal slush; drownage of all interests divine and human, in a Noah's-Deluge of Parliamentary eloquence, -- such as we hope our sins, heavy and manifold though they are, have not yet quite deserved!
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
qms commented on the word drownage
Young ladies in crinoline gownage
Refrained from riparian clownage
Else they might have slid
As Ophelia did
To prolonged, if picturesque, drownage.
July 23, 2016