colluctation

English

Etymology

Latin colluctor (“I struggle or contend with”)

Noun

colluctation (countable and uncountable, plural colluctations)

  1. (obsolete) struggling, conflict, strife
    • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 69:
      " […] and the shadowy Melancholy intangles her in colluctation with old Hags and Hobgoblins, and frights her with dead mens faces in the dark."
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