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decreation|diːkriːˈeɪʃən|
[f. de- I. 6 + creation. (In sense of ‘diminution’ décréation is found in 14th c. F.)]
The undoing of creation; depriving of existence; annihilation.
1647Ward Simp. Cobler 47 As he is a creature, hee feares decreation. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §37. 45 More Reasonable..then the continual Decreation and Annihilation of the souls of Brutes. 1918P. T. Forsyth This Life & Next x. 97 It is creation not out of a chaos but a wreck. It is the recreation of a decreation. a1930D. H. Lawrence Pornography & so On (1936) 26 The excrementory flow is towards dissolution, de-creation, if we may use such a word. |