percunctation
English
Noun
percunctation (plural percunctations)
- (rare) Obsolete spelling of percontation
- [1968], William E[arl] Buckler, A Preface to Our Times: Contemporary Thought in Traditional Rhetorical Forms, [New York, N.Y.]: American Book Company, OCLC 431471, page 232:
- His rhetorical questions and percunctations with repetition, here anaphora and epistrophe, have the urgency of a Massillon convincing a noble audience of the probability of their damnation: […]