Definition of alteration
Etymology
compare with French altération.
Pronunciation
Noun
alteration (plural alterations)
- The act of altering or making different.
* 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity,
…alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
- The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
* 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Resident Scholar in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,
…and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.
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