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alteration

Definition of alteration

Etymology

    compare with French altération.

Pronunciation

  • (WEAE) IPA: /ɔl.tɚˈeɪ.ʃən/
  • Audio (US) [?]
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn

Noun

alteration (plural alterations)

  1. 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…

  2. 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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