inquiration
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɪŋkwɪˈɹeɪʃən/
Noun
inquiration (countable and uncountable, plural inquirations)
- (UK, dialect) inquiry
- 1919, Israel Zangwill, Jinny the Carrier: A Folk-comedy of Rural England:
- "It's all right," Joey startled him by announcing, toppling his tower of parcels into the cart. "Oi've made inquirations. The old Flynt chap be aloive and kickin'."
- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 51, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, OCLC 558196156:
- […] she found (as she believed) a friend; a decent woman as spoke to her about the needle-work as she had been brought up to do, about finding plenty of it fur her, about a lodging fur the night, and making secret inquiration […]
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