tentation

Etymology

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

Noun

tentation (countable and uncountable, plural tentations)

1. Obsolete form of temptation.
   • 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     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.

2. (obsolete) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.

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Anagrams

• Antonetti, attention

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin tentatio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

tentation f (plural tentations)

1. temptation

Further reading

• “tentation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• attention

Noun

tentation (plural tentationes)

1. temptation

Noun

tentation

1. temptation