Percontation Definition

noun

(obsolete) A question which cannot properly be given a one-word answer like “yes” or “no”.

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Other Word Forms of Percontation

Noun

Singular:

percontation

Plural:

percontations

Origin of Percontation

First attested in Henry Cockeram’s 1623 English Dictionarie, first used in 1656; an adaptation of percontatiōn-, the stem of the Latin percontatiō (“questioning”, “inquiry”), from percontor (“I inquire”, “I interrogate”).

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