tentation

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Definition of tentation

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noun

(alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete form of temptation.

“Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer.”

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noun

(alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete form of temptation.

“Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer.”
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.

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From Old French tentation, from Latin tentatio, alternative form of temptatio. See temptation.

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