perlection
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin perlēctiō (“the act of reading through”), from perlegō (“read through”), from per (“through”) + legō (“read”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
perlection (plural perlections)
- the reading through of something.
- 1923, Edward Powys Mathers, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:
- When the perlection of the Koran had been accomplished, the cloth was laid and all manner of meats and necessary things were brought.