definition of the word abruption

Latin abruptio, from abrumpere: compare French abruption.

abruption (plural abruptions)

1. A sudden breaking off; a sudden termination; a violent separation of bodies.

• 1837: Samuel Johnson, The Life of Cowley

  By this abruption posterity lost more instruction than delight. Johnson, Life of Cowley.

• 1996: Richard Taruskin, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, p. 336

  After a startling abruption and a slow recovery, the canonic process is resumed at [7], with a whole slew of redundant entries on the last phrase.

• abrupt
• abruptly
• abruptness
• placental abruption

• "abruption" at The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

“abruption” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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