exolution
English
Etymology
From Latin exolutio (“a release”). See exolve.
Noun
exolution (countable and uncountable, plural exolutions)
- Obsolete form of exsolution.
- (obsolete) a setting free of the spirit.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall:
- And if any have been so happy as to truly understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kisse of the Spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exolution in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)