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Definition of assignation
1 : the act of assigning or the assignment made
2 : an appointment of time and place for a meeting; especially : tryst returned from an assignation with his mistress — W. B. Yeats
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Examples of assignation in a Sentence
a midnight assignation between adulterers at a downtown hotel
Recent Examples of assignation from the Web
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In an inspired touch, for instance, the actors all sport Kabuki-like makeup designed to heighten their cheekbones for maximum diva realness — which doesn’t care about gender assignations and includes men in drag.
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Where other painters and sculptors have depicted this mythological trope as a cross-species assignation, or even an avian rape, here Boucher pictures Leda alongside an equally beautiful friend, who gazes with polite curiosity at the visiting swan.
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But the spheres of his existence had already begun to collide before his alleyway assignation.
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First Known Use of assignation
15th century
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Definition of assignation for English Language Learners
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: a meeting between lovers
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