minoration
noun
Definition of minoration
-s
obsolete
: diminution the excuse and minoration of our actual impieties — Jeremy Taylor
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Origin and Etymology of minoration
Late Latin minoration-, minoratio, from minoratus + Latin -ion-, -io -ion
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