dilaceration

[ dih-las-uh-rey-shuhn, dahy- ]

noun

1. the act of dilacerating.
2. the state of being dilacerated.
3. Dentistry. displacement in the position of a developing tooth, resulting in angulation or distortion.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dilaceration¹

1375–1425; late Middle English < Late Latin dīlacerātiōn- (stem of dīlacerātiō ) a tearing to pieces, equivalent to dīlacerāt ( us ) ( dilacerate ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

Gaspard's transactions in Haarhaar, which the Lector gave, only with some omissions enjoined by Julienne, were these:-- With characteristic pleasure and silence had the Knight looked, of old, upon the intricacies of human relations, and given them over to their own disentanglement or dilaceration.

From Project Gutenberg

Besides, things which may perhaps be practiced innocently where they are familiar, produce a moral dilaceration in the course of their being introduced where they are new.

From Project Gutenberg

The dilaceration of Zagreus into fragments, the mangling of Osiris and scattering of his limbs abroad, they say, refer to the throwing open of the ark and the going forth of the inmates to populate the earth.

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The fortitude of the Spartan boy, who let a beast gnaw out his bowels till he died, without expressing a groan, is a faint bodily image of this dilaceration of the spirit, and exenteration of the inmost mind, which Calantha, with a holy violence against her nature, keeps closely covered, till the last duties of a wife and a queen are fulfilled.

From Project Gutenberg

The fortitude of the Spartan boy who let a beast gnaw out his bowels till he died without expressing a groan, is a faint bodily image of this dilaceration of the spirit and exenteration of the inmost mind, which Calantha with a holy violence against her nature keeps closely covered, till the last duties of a wife and a queen are fulfilled.

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