Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of discreating.
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Examples
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“Instantaneous creation of matter, and discreation as well.”
THE RIFT PETER DAVID 1991
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Next vnto this worke is the placing of Poales, of which we will first speake of the choise thereof, wherein if I discent from the opinion of other men, yet imagine I set downe no Oracle, but referre you to the experience or the practise, and so make your owne discreation the arbiter betwéene our discentions.
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I will not yet decide whether it was prudent discreation or rather, fearful and narrow-minded timidity, that deterred me from the great resolve of abandoning my family and my sphere of activity, to alone remain true to Elsje.
The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896
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2 Cenral Bank begins to print worthelss money which inevitably ends up being spent at politicians discreation to be re-elected.
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