lenition
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About Our Definitions: All forms of a word (noun, verb, etc.) are now displayed on one page.len·i·tion
noun \lə-ˈni-shən\Definition of LENITION
: the change from fortis to lenis articulation
Origin of LENITION
Latin lenire
First Known Use: 1912
Rhymes with LENITION
addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition
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