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单词 deplumation
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deplumationn.

/diːpl(j)uːˈmeɪʃən/
Etymology: < French déplumation (Cotgrave 1611), noun of action fromdéplumer to deplume v.
a. The action of depluming, or condition of being deplumed: loss of feathers, plumes, or (figurative) of honours, etc. In quot. 1834 humorously for ‘plucking’ in examination.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [noun]
debatec1460
disparagement1486
embasement1575
digraduation1577
lessening1579
degraduation1581
disparagea1592
bastardizing1598
debasement1602
deplumation1611
depression1628
vilificationa1631
degradement1641
degrading1646
prostration1647
deprisure1648
embasure1656
embasing1659
debasure1683
degradationc1752
derogation1785
demotion1872
objectification1973
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripping or being stripped of feathers
plucking1440
unpluming1592
deplumation1611
pluming1614
depluming1655
society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > marks > failure of candidate
deplumation1834
fizzle1846
flunk1846
pluck1852
fail1944
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Deplumation, a deplumation, pluming, vnfeathering.
1662 R. W[alden] (title) The Deplumation of Mrs. Anne Gibbs, of those furtivous perfections whereof she was supposed a Proprietary.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ (ed. 3) iii. iii. §15. 512 Through the violence of her moulting or deplumation.
1828 G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy II. iii. ii. 47 Notwithstanding the downfall produced by this deplumation, it [sc. the first Wild-Beast] afterward became erect upon its feet like a man.
1834 Oxf. Univ. Mag. 1 289 Lest..we recall to painful remembrance the forgotten miseries of deplumation.
b. Pathology. (See quots.)
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Deplumation..in Surgery, a swelling of the Eyelids, accompany'd with the fall of the Hairs from the Eye-brows.
1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Deplumation..old term for a disease of the eyelids which causes the eyelashes to fall off (Gr. πτίλωσις).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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