tentation

From Old French tentation, from Latin tentatio, alternative form of temptatio. See temptation.

tentation (countable and uncountable, plural tentations)

1. Obsolete form of temptation.
   • 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer.

2. (obsolete) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.[1]

• Antonetti, attention

From Old French, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin tentātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

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tentation f (plural tentations)

1. temptation

• tentative
• tentant
• tenter

• “tentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• attention

tentation (plural tentationes)

1. temptation

• tentar