absumption

English

Etymology

From Latin absumptionem. Compare absume.

Noun

absumption (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Gradual destruction or disintegration; wasting away.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 6:
      Christians abhorred this way of obsequies […] ; affecting rather a depositure than absumption, and properly submitting unto the sentence of God.
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