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ultimation|ʌltɪˈmeɪʃən| [f. L. ultimāt-, ultimāre: see ultimate v.1 Cf. It. ultimazione.] The action or process of bringing to an ultimate result; final issue or development.
1791H. Walpole Let. to Miss Berry 23 June, As this must take its passage..early to-morrow morning,..I shall perhaps not know the ultimation, but you probably will before you receive this. 1805E. de Acton Nuns of Desert I. 117 The ultimation of their meditated kindness, was only to bestow upon her an indisputable right to the title of a penitent. 1858Sears Athan. iii. ii. 258 The words heaven and hell, as they are used in popular speech, describe the complete ultimations of good and evil. 1883L. Oliphant Altiora Peto II. 65 When a sufficient number have..attained a sufficient development for the ultimation of new results. So ˌultimatiˈzation. rare.
1885L. Oliphant Sympneumata 117 Because of this abnormal ultimatisation of organisms in this subsurface world. |