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DISQUISITION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disquisition mean?
• DISQUISITION (noun)
The noun DISQUISITION has 1 sense:
1. an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion
Familiarity information: DISQUISITION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("disquisition" is a kind of...):
essay (an analytic or interpretive literary composition)
Context examples
I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The general pause which succeeded his short disquisition on the state of the nation was put an end to by Catherine, who, in rather a solemn tone of voice, uttered these words, I have heard that something very shocking indeed will soon come out in London.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The disquisitions upon death and suicide were calculated to fill me with wonder.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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