annihilationn.

Brit.

/əˌnʌɪəˈleɪʃn/, U.S.

/əˌnaɪəˈleɪʃən/

Forms: 1500s adnichilacion, 1500s adnihilacion, 1500s–1600s adnihilation, 1500s– annihilation, 1600s anicholation, 1600s anihilation, 1600s annihilacion, 1600s annihillation.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin adnihilation-, adnihilatio, annihilation-, annihilatio.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin adnihilation-, adnihilatio (also annihilation-, annihilatio) destruction (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome) < adnihilat- , past participial stem of adnihilare annihilate v. + classical Latin -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare annihilment n.Compare Middle French anichilacion , adnichilacion , adnichilation , annichilation , French annihilation (c1377), Spanish anihilación (second half of the 15th cent. as †anichilación ), Portuguese aniilação (1619 as †anihilação ), Italian annichilazione (a1406). With the formal variation compare the forms at annihilate v.

1. The state or fact of having been annihilated or completely destroyed; nothingness, non-existence; ruin.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation > state of annihilation

annihilation?1526

annullation1603

?1526 P. Bush Extripacion Ignorancy sig. C His conseruacion, may nat be sequestrate From our substaunce..vyle and transitory For if it be, we all are..Redacte to adnichilacion.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 517 Cut off the dependence of a Creature from its Creator and what an..Annihilation would it fal into?

1763 Montagnard Parvenu 34 A race that may run into annihilation; but can be supplemented by new creations, neither in their own country nor in England.

1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 i. 8 Political annihilation had not yet brought with it mental prostration and degeneracy.

1876 Ld. Beaufort Let. 11 Nov. in Marked ‘In Haste’ (1883) v. 36 The valuable paintings, books, and historic souvenirs..lie in annihilation, trodden under foot.

1951 H. Arendt Burden of our Time i. i. 8 The final catastrophe which brought the Jews so near to complete annihilation.

2011 S. D. Podmore in P. Stokes & A. J. Buben Kirkegaard & Death ii. 45 Death as unknowable annihilation, or nothingness, is in sharp ostensible contrast to the biblical notion that fear of death..is the beginning of all wisdom.

a. The action or process of reducing a person or thing to nothing or of wiping a someone or something out of existence; total or effective destruction, obliteration, or eradication. Also: an instance of this.In early use esp. with reference to the reduction in the Eucharist of the substance of the bread and wine to nothing (see transubstantiation n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation

anientizement1429

deletiona1513

extincting1513

annihilment1526

exterminion1528

nulling1538

annihilation1541

exterminationc1550

nullity1555

annihilating1577

massacre1595

extinguishment1599

extinct1606

expunction1615

extinction1615

discreationa1628

nullificationa1631

nullifying1640

decreation1647

defacedness1668

extinguishinga1676

erasurea1794

exterminating1796

blotting out1808

naughting1913

wipeout1968

1541 G. Joye Frutefull Treatis Baptyme & Lordis Souper sig. Dvii Transsubstanciacion of the brede & wyne, that is to saye adnihilacion or naught making of them, destroying the substance of them bothe.

1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection iv. 752 When and how the bread is abolished, whether by conuersion or annihilation.

a1638 J. Mede Paraphr. 2 Peter (1642) iii. 7 A destruction of the whole creature it self by utter annihilation.

1740 G. Turnbull Princ. Moral Philos. I. ix. 254 The greater good of intelligent beings..cannot require the annihilation of any particular species.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 96 The same change of climate..has also contributed to the annihilation of certain genera of land-mammifera.

1844 Republican Sentinel (Richmond, Va.) 13 July 3/5 The very dregs of society, bent upon..the annihilation of the Roman Catholics.

1972 Tri-State Defender (Memphis, Tennessee) 16 Sept. 7 To lessen the danger of an annihilation by a World War III, we must make democracy work better.

2011 M. Dobbs in J. McPhee & C. Rigolot Princeton Reader 35 His [sc. Hitler's] plan for the annihilation of the Jewish race..was well under way.

b. Theology. The complete termination of a person's existence at death, soul as well as body; spec. the destruction of the souls of unrepentant sinners, either at death or after a period of torment in hell (cf. conditional immortality at conditional adj. 1a).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [noun] > destruction of

annihilation1613

fanā1867

1613 T. Tuke Disc. Death 1 Death, is a disiunction of the soule, not a destruction, it is a separation, and not an annihilation.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxvii. 281 An Atheist..conceiveth Annihilation, or never more to be, the best close of a wicked life.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Christian writers..shocked with the horrible prospect of eternal torments, have taken refuge in the system of Annihilation.

1866 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo iv. 37 The Greek did not even in the earliest times believe death to be annihilation.

1974 G. Rowell Hell & Victorians viii. 181 Those of the school who were more strongly influenced by Darwinism believed this annihilation to occur at death, but for other conditionalists..annihilation occurred after the wicked had been punished according to their deserts.

2007 D. Wilson God's Call to Planet Earth xvii. 324 We see in the above texts the final annihilation of the wicked; their lives are not sustained for an unending eternity.

3. The action or process of putting an end to or doing away with something immaterial; abolition; (also) abrogation, annulment. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun]

revoking1395

revocationc1400

cassationc1425

annulling1449

reclamationa1475

annulmenta1492

retractation1531

disannulling1533

abrogation1535

cancellation1535

retraction1536

extinguishment1537

undoing1540

abrenunciation1557

revocating1570

reversement1572

revokement1573

annihilation1579

revocatory1579

annullity1586

retroversion1587

rescission1594

recall1597

recision1606

disannulment1611

repeal1612

rasurea1616

cancelment1621

retractinga1624

cancelling1631

extinction1651

circumduction1726

cassing1844

recallment1845

cancel1884

1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church iii. f. 34 Fayth onely iustifieth: of the..damnablenesse of mans free will, and of the adnihilation of our deseruings.

1645 Key to Kings Cabinet 43 By way of Annihilation and voiding of the first promise.

1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 8 The annihilation of our trade, the ruin of our credit.

1859 Harper's Mag. May 757/2 The diffusion of knowledge and intellectual culture has nourished the critical faculty at the expense, and almost to the annihilation, of the creative.

1934 Michigan Law Rev. 32 519 Whether rescission is effected by an appropriate legal remedy or by equity decree, the result is the annihilation of the contract.

1949 K. Clark Landscape into Art iv. 73 With this annihilation of an ideal past, there vanished the concept of ideal landscape.

2003 Windsor (Ontario) Star (Nexis) 25 June a9 Last time I checked, we were not aiming for total annihilation of personal choice.

a. The destruction of the combined or organized existence of a body or collective entity; effective or virtual elimination, esp. the total rout of a military force. Also: reduction to powerlessness or insignificance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation > of collective bodies

annihilation1642

1642 tr. in Uotes Both Houses of Parl. 5 The destruction and annihiIation [sic] of our Lord the King and of his whole Kingdome.

1796 Ld. Sheffield in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 358 The annihilation of Jourdan's army is a great event.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 54 Their policy was, therefore, simply that of conquest, not annihilation.

1973 N. C. Chatterji Muddle of Middle East i. 31 He had formed a grand plan of conquest of the Ottoman Empire, and also annihilation of the House of Austria.

2020 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 20 Nov. 4 The rout that followed in the Russo-Japanese War spelt disaster for the Romanovs; the annihilation of the Baltic fleet and bloodshed outside the Winter Palace.

b. Sport. A decisive or resounding defeat.

ΚΠ

1901 Junior Munsey Aug. 843/1 The result was the utter annihilation of the Englishmen, who did not take their defeat with any good grace.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Aug. d5 His team's 8-2 annihilation at the hands of the Cosmos.

1989 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 4 Dec. (Sport section) 54 His annihilation of Connors to take the Wimbledon title was a quite unforgettable tour de force.

2008 J. Greaves & N. Giller Football's Great Heroes & Entertainers 23 Another memory that he shared was of England's 10-0 annihilation of Portugal in Lisbon in 1947.

5. Particle Physics. The conversion of matter into energy; spec. that which occurs when a subatomic particle combines with its equivalent antiparticle. Cf. annihilate v. 7.Typically, the energy produced by the annihilation of a particle and an antiparticle almost instantaneously transforms into new particles. These particles are usually different from those in the original interaction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [noun] > anti-particle > combination of particle and anti-particle

annihilation1904

1904 Nature 16 June 151/2 If annihilation of matter furnishes the energy of radioactivity, it follows from our estimate that, in the case of radium, the coalescence of one pair of electrons causes the breakup of a large number of radium atoms.

1930 J. H. Jeans Universe around Us (ed. 2) iii. 186 The majority of astronomers now regard annihilation of matter as the most probable source of stellar energy.

1942 J. D. Stranathan ‘Particles’ of Mod. Physics 374 (heading) Creation and Annihilation of Electron-Positron Pairs.

2020 MailOnline (Nexis) 15 Apr. (Science section) This mutual annihilation should mean neither matter nor antimatter should have survived the Big Bang.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

单词	annihilation
释义	annihilationn. Brit. /əˌnʌɪəˈleɪʃn/, U.S. /əˌnaɪəˈleɪʃən/ Forms: 1500s adnichilacion, 1500s adnihilacion, 1500s–1600s adnihilation, 1500s– annihilation, 1600s anicholation, 1600s anihilation, 1600s annihilacion, 1600s annihillation. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin adnihilation-, adnihilatio, annihilation-, annihilatio. Etymology: < post-classical Latin adnihilation-, adnihilatio (also annihilation-, annihilatio) destruction (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome) < adnihilat- , past participial stem of adnihilare annihilate v. + classical Latin -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare annihilment n.Compare Middle French anichilacion , adnichilacion , adnichilation , annichilation , French annihilation (c1377), Spanish anihilación (second half of the 15th cent. as †anichilación ), Portuguese aniilação (1619 as †anihilação ), Italian annichilazione (a1406). With the formal variation compare the forms at annihilate v. 1. The state or fact of having been annihilated or completely destroyed; nothingness, non-existence; ruin. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation > state of annihilation annihilation?1526 annullation1603 ?1526 P. Bush Extripacion Ignorancy sig. C His conseruacion, may nat be sequestrate From our substaunce..vyle and transitory For if it be, we all are..Redacte to adnichilacion. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 517 Cut off the dependence of a Creature from its Creator and what an..Annihilation would it fal into? 1763 Montagnard Parvenu 34 A race that may run into annihilation; but can be supplemented by new creations, neither in their own country nor in England. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 i. 8 Political annihilation had not yet brought with it mental prostration and degeneracy. 1876 Ld. Beaufort Let. 11 Nov. in Marked ‘In Haste’ (1883) v. 36 The valuable paintings, books, and historic souvenirs..lie in annihilation, trodden under foot. 1951 H. Arendt Burden of our Time i. i. 8 The final catastrophe which brought the Jews so near to complete annihilation. 2011 S. D. Podmore in P. Stokes & A. J. Buben Kirkegaard & Death ii. 45 Death as unknowable annihilation, or nothingness, is in sharp ostensible contrast to the biblical notion that fear of death..is the beginning of all wisdom. 2. a. The action or process of reducing a person or thing to nothing or of wiping a someone or something out of existence; total or effective destruction, obliteration, or eradication. Also: an instance of this.In early use esp. with reference to the reduction in the Eucharist of the substance of the bread and wine to nothing (see transubstantiation n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation anientizement1429 deletiona1513 extincting1513 annihilment1526 exterminion1528 nulling1538 annihilation1541 exterminationc1550 nullity1555 annihilating1577 massacre1595 extinguishment1599 extinct1606 expunction1615 extinction1615 discreationa1628 nullificationa1631 nullifying1640 decreation1647 defacedness1668 extinguishinga1676 erasurea1794 exterminating1796 blotting out1808 naughting1913 wipeout1968 1541 G. Joye Frutefull Treatis Baptyme & Lordis Souper sig. Dvii Transsubstanciacion of the brede & wyne, that is to saye adnihilacion or naught making of them, destroying the substance of them bothe. 1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection iv. 752 When and how the bread is abolished, whether by conuersion or annihilation. a1638 J. Mede Paraphr. 2 Peter (1642) iii. 7 A destruction of the whole creature it self by utter annihilation. 1740 G. Turnbull Princ. Moral Philos. I. ix. 254 The greater good of intelligent beings..cannot require the annihilation of any particular species. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 96 The same change of climate..has also contributed to the annihilation of certain genera of land-mammifera. 1844 Republican Sentinel (Richmond, Va.) 13 July 3/5 The very dregs of society, bent upon..the annihilation of the Roman Catholics. 1972 Tri-State Defender (Memphis, Tennessee) 16 Sept. 7 To lessen the danger of an annihilation by a World War III, we must make democracy work better. 2011 M. Dobbs in J. McPhee & C. Rigolot Princeton Reader 35 His [sc. Hitler's] plan for the annihilation of the Jewish race..was well under way. b. Theology. The complete termination of a person's existence at death, soul as well as body; spec. the destruction of the souls of unrepentant sinners, either at death or after a period of torment in hell (cf. conditional immortality at conditional adj. 1a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [noun] > destruction of annihilation1613 fanā1867 1613 T. Tuke Disc. Death 1 Death, is a disiunction of the soule, not a destruction, it is a separation, and not an annihilation. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxvii. 281 An Atheist..conceiveth Annihilation, or never more to be, the best close of a wicked life. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Christian writers..shocked with the horrible prospect of eternal torments, have taken refuge in the system of Annihilation. 1866 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo iv. 37 The Greek did not even in the earliest times believe death to be annihilation. 1974 G. Rowell Hell & Victorians viii. 181 Those of the school who were more strongly influenced by Darwinism believed this annihilation to occur at death, but for other conditionalists..annihilation occurred after the wicked had been punished according to their deserts. 2007 D. Wilson God's Call to Planet Earth xvii. 324 We see in the above texts the final annihilation of the wicked; their lives are not sustained for an unending eternity. 3. The action or process of putting an end to or doing away with something immaterial; abolition; (also) abrogation, annulment. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] revoking1395 revocationc1400 cassationc1425 annulling1449 reclamationa1475 annulmenta1492 retractation1531 disannulling1533 abrogation1535 cancellation1535 retraction1536 extinguishment1537 undoing1540 abrenunciation1557 revocating1570 reversement1572 revokement1573 annihilation1579 revocatory1579 annullity1586 retroversion1587 rescission1594 recall1597 recision1606 disannulment1611 repeal1612 rasurea1616 cancelment1621 retractinga1624 cancelling1631 extinction1651 circumduction1726 cassing1844 recallment1845 cancel1884 1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church iii. f. 34 Fayth onely iustifieth: of the..damnablenesse of mans free will, and of the adnihilation of our deseruings. 1645 Key to Kings Cabinet 43 By way of Annihilation and voiding of the first promise. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 8 The annihilation of our trade, the ruin of our credit. 1859 Harper's Mag. May 757/2 The diffusion of knowledge and intellectual culture has nourished the critical faculty at the expense, and almost to the annihilation, of the creative. 1934 Michigan Law Rev. 32 519 Whether rescission is effected by an appropriate legal remedy or by equity decree, the result is the annihilation of the contract. 1949 K. Clark Landscape into Art iv. 73 With this annihilation of an ideal past, there vanished the concept of ideal landscape. 2003 Windsor (Ontario) Star (Nexis) 25 June a9 Last time I checked, we were not aiming for total annihilation of personal choice. 4. a. The destruction of the combined or organized existence of a body or collective entity; effective or virtual elimination, esp. the total rout of a military force. Also: reduction to powerlessness or insignificance. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation > of collective bodies annihilation1642 1642 tr. in Uotes Both Houses of Parl. 5 The destruction and annihiIation [sic] of our Lord the King and of his whole Kingdome. 1796 Ld. Sheffield in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 358 The annihilation of Jourdan's army is a great event. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 54 Their policy was, therefore, simply that of conquest, not annihilation. 1973 N. C. Chatterji Muddle of Middle East i. 31 He had formed a grand plan of conquest of the Ottoman Empire, and also annihilation of the House of Austria. 2020 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 20 Nov. 4 The rout that followed in the Russo-Japanese War spelt disaster for the Romanovs; the annihilation of the Baltic fleet and bloodshed outside the Winter Palace. b. Sport. A decisive or resounding defeat. ΚΠ 1901 Junior Munsey Aug. 843/1 The result was the utter annihilation of the Englishmen, who did not take their defeat with any good grace. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Aug. d5 His team's 8-2 annihilation at the hands of the Cosmos. 1989 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 4 Dec. (Sport section) 54 His annihilation of Connors to take the Wimbledon title was a quite unforgettable tour de force. 2008 J. Greaves & N. Giller Football's Great Heroes & Entertainers 23 Another memory that he shared was of England's 10-0 annihilation of Portugal in Lisbon in 1947. 5. Particle Physics. The conversion of matter into energy; spec. that which occurs when a subatomic particle combines with its equivalent antiparticle. Cf. annihilate v. 7.Typically, the energy produced by the annihilation of a particle and an antiparticle almost instantaneously transforms into new particles. These particles are usually different from those in the original interaction. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [noun] > anti-particle > combination of particle and anti-particle annihilation1904 1904 Nature 16 June 151/2 If annihilation of matter furnishes the energy of radioactivity, it follows from our estimate that, in the case of radium, the coalescence of one pair of electrons causes the breakup of a large number of radium atoms. 1930 J. H. Jeans Universe around Us (ed. 2) iii. 186 The majority of astronomers now regard annihilation of matter as the most probable source of stellar energy. 1942 J. D. Stranathan ‘Particles’ of Mod. Physics 374 (heading) Creation and Annihilation of Electron-Positron Pairs. 2020 MailOnline (Nexis) 15 Apr. (Science section) This mutual annihilation should mean neither matter nor antimatter should have survived the Big Bang. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.?1526
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