Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Invective.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete An inveighing against; invective.

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  • noun obsolete An inveighing against; invective.

Etymologies

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Latin invectio. See inveigh.

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Examples

  • But when you get up to parts of the arrowhead of Minnesota and northern Wisconsin and even the UP of Michigan, a lot of that rain is going to be switching over to snow because you got that cold-air invection coming in, that shallow layer with the overrunning moisture is going to give you the snow.

    CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2009 2009

  • But in the southwest, we're looking at a little bit of dry air invection that is beginning to sweep in.

    CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2008 2008

  • When this happens, we refer to as dry air invection (ph).

    CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008 2008

  • The soaring HIV infection rates in sub-Saharan Africa are found in communities that do not practice circumcision, such as Swaziland, with the world's highest HIV invection rate of 33 percent.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • A leading South African AIDS expert Saturday advocated male circumcision as the best available "vaccine" against invection.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Yet, your own comment on TV a few minutes ago noted the high rate of HIV invection in Washington D.C. If condom availability is not working in the US, our own capital city, why are you so sure it will work in

    Cafferty File 2009

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