averruncation

== English == === Etymology === From averruncate +‎ -ion. === Noun === averruncation (countable and uncountable, plural averruncations) (archaic, rare) (The act of) warding off, averting (something evil). 1827, “Catholicism in Silesia”. (review), The Foreign Quarterly Review, Nº II., Art. XI., page 545 (footnote): There are, we presume, different forms in different rituals; for in another that we heve seen, the bishop, while anointing and crossing the bell, prays God will send his Holy Spirit, that the bell may become sanctified for the repelling of all the power, snares, and illusions of the devil, for the souls of the dead, and especially for the averruncation of storms, thunder, and tempests! 2009, David R. Slavitt tr. Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation, Harvard University Press →ISBN, Canto XXIX.38., page 589: […] I believe / many failed in their averruncation / of Rodomonte's assaults and they would achieve / nothing more than the early termination / of lives they could have enjoyed or put to use. Molti fra pochi dì vi capitaro: / Alcuni la via dritta vi condusse, / Ch’a quei che verso Italia o Spagna andaro / Altra non era che più trita fusse; / Altri l’ardire, e, più che vita caro, / L’onore, a farvi di sé prova indusse. / E tutti, ove acquistar credean la palma, / Lasciavan l’arme, e molti insieme l’alma. Eradication, uprooting.