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Japonia en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /d͡ʒæˈpəʊniə/
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Etymology

From New Latin Japō̆nia, also spelled Iapō̆nia, through Japon + -ia.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Japan: A country in East Asia.
   • In Japonia, 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends. 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.VI:
   • THE Tyrants of Japonia invented a ſtrange Torment for thoſe who confeſſed Chriſt 1702, Jeremy Taylor, Contemplations of the State of Man in this Life, And in That which is to come, 6th edition, page 193:

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