alteration
See also: altération
English
Etymology
Old French alteracion (French altération), from Medieval Latin alterātiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
alteration (countable and uncountable, plural alterations)
- The act of altering or making different.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity:
- …alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
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- The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Resident Scholar in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,
- …and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Resident Scholar in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for alteration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Translations
the act of altering or making different
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the state of being altered
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