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flutteˈration rare.
[see -ation.]
The action of fluttering; the state of being fluttered.
1754Richardson Grandison III. vii. 50 Such a Love as..she had in her days of flutteration, as she whimsically calls them. 1771Hull Sir W. Harrington IV. 172 Even I, who am so much less concerned, am in a violent flutteration about it. 1805in Spirit Public Jrnls. (1806) IX. 265 The names of Colonel, Major, and Captain scarce occasion the smallest flutteration. 1896J. C. Harris Sister Jane 220, I heard a big flutteration at the top, and out came a pair of wood-peckers. |