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difficultate en · VERB

Etymology

From Latin difficultāt-, past participial stem of difficultō. By surface analysis, difficult + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. (rare) To render difficult; to difficilitate.
   • and lest this foresayd entervew should be letted or difficultated by entreatyng those thyngeis, which Your Highnes send now with Master Boner , they grett y feryd , and for that there councel was , that we should in no wise do or say, at thys tyme, whereby we should exasperate the Pope, and bryng Hym in a desperacion by the whiche He should breke fromme the foresayde resolucyon, whiche should be as they said a hurte unrecoverable. 1533 March 11, Robert Benet, Letter from Benet to King Henry VIII:
   • They started to make connections and to play with the routine, adding complexities and difficultating it. 2019, Dana Frantz Bentley, Mariana Souto-Manning, Pre-K Stories, page 86:
   • By “difficultating,” a facilitator can help the group determine the thinking errors or problematic normative claims that might be jeopardizing their thoughts and actions, and encourage “deliberate moral imagining" 2020, Natalie M. Fletcher, “Underestimated No More”, in Claire Elise Katz, Thomas Wartenberg, editors, Growing Up with Philosophy Camp, page 85:
   • On the other hand, the low value found for the infection in the caudal fin, as compared with the other fins, is likely to be due to the more intense movements of the anal fin, therefore difficultating the penetration by the cercariae. 1999, Acta scientiarum - Volume 21, Issues 1-2, page 240:

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