roration

roration

English

Etymology

From the Latin rōrātio.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rôrāʹshən, IPA^(key): /ɹɔəˈɹeɪʃən/

Noun

roration (plural rorations)

1. A falling of dew.

   With dawn we see the mark of yesternight’s roration.

   • 1810: James Kennedy, Glenochel: A Descriptive Poem in Two Volumes, volume 1, page 50

     That in the bland rorations calm
      Their luscious redolence receive,
     And, with a still, ambrosial balm,
      Aromatize the breath of eve.

Related terms

• rore (obsolete)

References

• The Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1727), volume II of An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721), by Nathaniel Bailey
    A Falling of Dew.
• “roˈration²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]