Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PEN-E-TRA'TION
PEN'E-TRA-TING-LYPEN'E-TRA-TIVE
PEN-E-TRA'TION, n.
- The act of entering a body. – Milton.
- Menial entrance into any thing abstruse; as, a penetration into the abstruse difficulties of algebra. – Watts.
- Acuteness; sagacity; as, a man of great or nice penetration.
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