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imbuement en · NOUN

Etymology

From imbue + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of imbuing, or state of being imbued (literal or figurative).
   • Gerry Hull did not think of himself as one of those certain to die; neither did he think of himself as one likely to live. Long ago he had attained that new imbuement of being, independent of all estimates of continuance of self, which was content with disposing of the present hours as best might be. Edwin Balmer, Ruth of the U. S. A., (Please provide the book title or journal name), Chapter 9:
   • it receiveth a most notable participation of its first beginning with an imbuement from its divine source, and in contemplation of that infinite and intellectual sphere 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 4th book:
2. (countable, uncountable) A deep tincture or staining.
3. (countable, uncountable) The process of infusing or saturating an object, person, or weapon with magical energy for the purpose of granting said person or item new, mystical properties.

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permeation