perscrutation

noun
/pəː.skɹuːˈteɪʃən/UK/pɚ.skɹuːˈteɪʃən/US

Etymology

From Latin perscrūtātiō, from the past participle stem of perscrūtor.

  1. derived from perscrūtātiō

Definitions

  1. A thorough searching

    A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.

    • The first and universall reasons are of a hard perscrutation.
    • Such guessing, visioning, dim perscrutation of the momentous future: the very clothmakers, old women, all townsfolk speak of it

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for perscrutation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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